Diet soda makes you fat?
This idea has been in my thoughts for years as I saw the more people drank diet pop the less weight they lost and actually seemed to gain weight! Now, it may be that they would just get fat anyway, but there is no doubt that diet soda does nothing to help you loose weight and I am convinced it just does the opposite, makes your body pack on more pounds. I found the following article in a magazine at a doctors office just today:
First Days of Ryan’s Homeschool Co-op
The journey has begun! Ryan embarked a few days ago on his new adventure of “real school.” He has been homeschooling, as most homeschoolers do, soon after God brought him into this world and already at his ripe old age of 5 1/2, he is fairly proficient at reading simple words. This is thanks in part to some hard work over the past year  having recently completed the “Hooked on Phonics” Kindergarten levels 1 and 2 (along with his 4 year old sister Kaitlyn).
The big change came as Ryan started a Homeschooling Co-Op where he goes twice a week with eight other kids at “Gloria Deo Academy.” The co-op uses the “classical method” of learning with lots of early memorization, making it a pretty rigorous work load.  The rest of the week he is still homeschooling away with his brothers and sister. Getting a head start on his memory work, Ryan has already mastered Psalm 1:1-6 over the past few weeks
Below are a few pictures and a video of the last few days for you to enjoy:
Ryan’s new found interest is math as he loves numbers. Of course, treasure map drawing is still number one in his book! :p
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How to install MySQL 5.5 on Ubuntu
I have been beating my head against the wall for almost a year now, trying to figure out how to install MySQL 5.5 on Ubuntu since there is still not a .deb package to use. OpenDental software makes use of MySQL as it’s database and since my servers have always run Ubuntu, I didn’t really want to switch to an RPM based distro and have to learn new tricks for that system just for this reason. MySQL 5.1 was giving off and on errors and the time had come that I to either get it to work or ditch Ubuntu for and RPM based distro (probably OpenSuse/Fedora/Mandriva).
Finally, after trying it seems like twenty or thirty tutorials on the net and having problem at one point or another with all of them, I succeeded and got MySQL 5.5.14 running on Ubuntu 11.04 “lucid!”
If you follow the steps below from a standard Ubuntu/MySQL LAMP server install, you should be able to have a working v5.5 server in no time!
(help from this thread: https://code.launchpad.net/~clint-fewbar/ubuntu/natty/mysql-5.1/mysql-5.5-packaging)
64bit Machine w/ MySQL 5.5.14
sudo apt-get purge mysql-serversudo apt-get purge mysql-clientsudo apt-get purge mysql-commonsudo apt-get autoremovesudo apt-get autocleansudo rm -fr /var/lib/mysqlsudo wget -O MySQL-server-5.5.14-1.linux2.6.x86_64.rpm http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.5/MySQL-server-5.5.14-1.linux2.6.x86_64.rpm/from/http://mysql.mirrors.hoobly.com/
sudo wget -O MySQL-client-5.5.14-1.linux2.6.x86_64.rpm http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.5/MySQL-client-5.5.14-1.linux2.6.x86_64.rpm/from/http://mysql.mirrors.hoobly.com/
sudo apt-get install alien
sudo alien -i MySQL-server-5.5.14-1.linux2.6.x86_64.rpm --scripts
sudo alien -i MySQL-client-5.5.14-1.linux2.6.x86_64.rpm --scripts
sudo apt-get install libaio1 libaio-devsudo /usr/sbin/mysqld --skip-grant &sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start
If you want to secure the installation and put a password on the root user:
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Install Virtual Box 4 on Ubuntu with PhpVirtualBox4
This is assuming Ubuntu 11.04 64 bit
Edit the source list
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
Add the following line
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian natty contrib
Save and exit the file
Add gpg key
wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
To make sure your kernel is updated properly with virtualbox:
sudo apt-get install dkms
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.0.8/virtualbox-4.0_4.0.8-71778~Ubuntu~natty_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-4.0_4.0.8-71778~Ubuntu~natty_amd64.deb
you will get dependency errors, so run the following to install the dependencies:
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Kittens!
Well, we woke up a few days ago and found we had two kittens on the back porch! Little did we know our cat was never the guy we though “he” was and is now the mother of two new kittens! We are thinking of “Midnight” and “Misty” for new names. Mom’s name is “Pepper.” Salty, Pepper’s brother, is no longer with us…a coyote must have gotten him!  :p
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The Power Of God’s Creation.
Are we ready to answer to the Almighty God?
Devastating tornadoes ripped through the country over the last few days and it gives me new found respect for the power of the wind. It reminds me of how small we actually are and how powerful God is. For the here and now, it means we need to take shelter from the storm any time severe weather is around us. For eternity, it means we need to take refuge in God Himself for eternal peace and salvation. Have you given your life to Christ?
Below are some pictures of the recent tornadoes to give you a better understanding of what can happen in the blink of an eye. Life is precious and fleeting. Don’t let another moment go by and put off the call of God in your life.
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Who Needs Salvation?
God is perfect. We are not. How do we measure up to God? We don’t. Christ lived a perfect life to die in our place. Jesus provided what is called the divine exchange. Our sins for His perfection. Repenting of your sins and trusting in Christ along for the forgiveness of your sins is the only way! Give up your life and give it back to your creator Jesus! Watch this video for an interesting explanation of salvation:
Read MoreObama finally releases birth certificate….or does he? God is in control…
“Daniel answered and said: ”Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might. He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding;” - Daniel 2:20-21 (ESV)
Wow…so President Obama finally releases his birth certificate…I just don’t understand why he didn’t before. But wait… look at the background on the left side…it stays straight while it appears the grid of the document curves on a page. So this begs the question…is it real? I don’t want to jump to conclusions…but when I scan a document from a book, everything on a curve is curved….
It almost appears like it was scanned without a transparent background (or edited to be that way) and then the edited version placed right on the hatched background image.
The bottom line is the birth certificate is now public. We hope and pray it is real of course and our own president would not falsify information, but with things that look funny like above…there are still questions. The issue will live on I am afraid, but no matter the real truth, our job is to move forward, knowing that God is in control of all issues, including who our president is in America. We must pray for our leaders and when we don’t agree with them, vote them out at the next election!
Here is the official PDF version of the above picture from the White House website.
Read MoreHomemade Wheat Bread
Do you want to make some great homemade bread? Here is a great recipe.
Download both images to print here.
Read MoreOur trip to the South and Cruise to Mexico
If you would like to see the pictures from our latest family adventures, please and they will magically appear! If you have not yet registered, take a moment to do so here: After I have approved your account, you will be able to Thanks and God bless!
There are lots of pictures in this one (~170) be patient for it to load!
We are very thankful to the Lord, Jesus, for allowing our entire family to travel down to the southern United States and then board a cruise ship to Mexico! We had a blast and in the words of Alex (2) ” We went on a ‘space ship’!”
Click here to see more photos from the battleship and sub!
Fix Out of Resource Problem with MySQL
Update:
This did not seem to work, and the only solution seems to be to upgrade to MySQL 5.5 11/27/2011
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Possible errors you might be having:
mysqldump: Couldn't execute 'show fields from `tablename`': Out of resources when opening file './databasename/tablename#P#p125.MYD' (Errcode: 24) (23)
I started having problems with this when I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10 with MySQL 5.1 installed. I am running a large database for the Open Dental Software in my office and was having the hardest time figuring out how to fix the problem. Finally I figured out it was not a MySQL problem, but a limit put on the number of files MySQL or my user could open by Ubuntu “security.”
View the problem
Here is how to test to see if this might be an issue:
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sudo -u mysql bashmysql@ubuntu:~$ ulimit -a
Install MySQL 5.5 on Ubuntu 10.10
UPDATED
I finally got it to work using “alien” and converting the .RPM to .deb. Then I installed it on Ubuntu 11.04 See how I did it HERE… 07/26/2011
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Previously my tuorial did not seem to work completely, so I am trying again with a new source:
http://geek.co.il/wp/2011/03/02/mysql-5-5-on-ubuntu-10-10
Read MoreHistory of Computers and their Modern Components
This is the beginning to the computer/electrical class held at South Creek Church’s Homeschool Co-Op on Feb 24th, 2011
Read MoreRsync and SSH – Passwordless Login
Making remote copies
What if you want to copy files offsite to a remote host? No problem — all you need to do is add the host and user information. So, for instance, if you want to copy the same directory to a remote host, you’d use:
rsync -ave ssh –delete /home/user/dir/ user@remote.host.com:dir/
If you want to know how fast the transfer is going, and how much remains to be copied, add the –progress option:
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