(Gore) THIS! IS! MAN AT ARMS! Blacksmith Tony Swatton and his crew replicated King Leonidas’ one-handed sword from 300. Mythbusters’ Grant Imahara then dropped by to test it, and to show just how huge Tony is.
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Dwight Eisenhower’s Best Productivity Tricks
President Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th president and a five star general during World War II. He won his first presidential election by a landslide, built the Interstate Highway System, and created NASA. Which is to say, he was pretty productive. Let’s take a look at a few of his best tricks for getting all that done.
Use the Eisenhower Decision Matrix to Manage Your Time
The Eisenhower Decision Matrix is a time management technique based on an unverified quote often ascribed to Eisenhower:
What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
The basic premise here is pretty simple: some tasks are urgent and others are not. When you organize those, you can make better use of your time. From this quote, the Eisenhower Decision Matrix was born. The matrix consists of a square divided into four quadrants. Although it’s not really clear if Eisenhower himself used a matrix like this, it’s helpful nonetheless if you’re trying to prioritize your time. Here’s the basic gist of how the four quadrants are organized:
- Important/Urgent quadrants are done immediately and personally
- Important/Not Urgent quadrants get an end date and are done personally
- Unimportant/Urgent quadrants are delegated
- Unimportant/Not Urgent quadrants are dropped
The real crux of this matrix is differentiating between urgent and important. Urgent tasks require immediate attention, important tasks contribute to long-term goals. The Art of Manliness described this as being "reactive" or "responsive:"
Urgent means that a task requires immediate attention. These are the to-do’s that shout "Now!" Urgent tasks put us in a reactive mode, one marked by a defensive, negative, hurried, and narrowly-focused mindset.
Important tasks are things that contribute to our long-term mission, values, and goals. Sometimes important tasks are also urgent, but typically they’re not. When we focus on important activities we operate in a responsive mode, which helps us remain calm, rational, and open to new opportunities.
The end goal of the matrix is to help you filter the noise from your decisions and concentrate on what really matters. If you don’t feel like mapping that out with a pen and paper, here’s an iOS and web app that can help.
Use An Anger Drawer to Get Over Misgivings
Anger is an incredibly frustrating feeling and while we’ve talked about plenty of ways to handle it, it often tends to stick around a lot longer than we think. This is especially the case with people who treat us poorly. It’s often easier to hold a grudge against someone than to get over it and move on. Eisenhower used what called an "Anger Drawer" to fight this problem:
I make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone’s been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget him. I used to follow a practice—somewhat contrived, I admit—to write the man’s name on a piece of scrap paper, drop it into the lowest drawer of my desk, and say to myself: "That finishes the incident, and so far as I’m concerned, that fellow." The drawer became over the years a sort of private wastebasket for crumbled-up spite and discarded personalities.
If you struggle with grudges or you’ve been wronged by someone, it’s not a bad trick to try. Obviously it takes some mental gymnastics for Eisenhower’s method to work here, but the physical act of getting rid of that name may prove useful over time.
Associate with Smart People and Learn to Delegate
It’s common advice that the smarter people you surround yourself with, the better most projects will turn out, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t need repeating now and again. Eisenhower was a firm believer in acknowledging the fact that he wasn’t the smartest guy in the room. In his book At Ease: Stories I Tell My Friends, he advises:
Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
Likewise, Eisenhower was a vocal proponent of the delegation of authority. That’s summed up in his creation of the position of White House Chief of Staff, but also in how he structured his cabinet. He made sure that everyone beneath him did what they were supposed to and he delegated authority in a way that he could ignore the minutia of unimportant decisions. Here’s Eisenhower’s explanation of why he did this:
No staff, council, or cabinet attempted to make decisions for me, yet every subordinate was always expected, within his own area of delegated authority and within the limits of established policy, to solve his own problems. Upon this I insisted; whenever I had to make a decision that properly belonged to a subordinate I admonished him once, but if he failed again it was time to begin looking for a replacement.
While Dwight Eisenhower wasn’t known as a president who accomplished a lot at the time, historians have come to think more highly of him and his techniques. He did things a bit differently than other presidents, but his military experience certainly shaped how he handled a lot of the issues in the Oval Office.
Animation teaches you all that happened in World War II in 7 minutes
I really wish YouTube and the Internet as we know it today existed when I was in high school. So instead of reading textbooks and taking notes in class, I could just watch YouTube videos and Wikipedia entries on any test I had coming up. Seriously, I could have dozed off in class and just watched this animation detailing the major workings of World War II.
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Animation teaches you all that happened in World War II in 7 minutes
12 Gauge is Enough Gun
What, exactly, is “enough gun”? This question was posed by the famouse African hunter/writer Robert Ruark, originally of North Carolina but his last years were spent living in London. To over simplify Ruark’s answer to this question, “enough gun” is having sufficient or perhaps more than adequate cartridge power and terminal ballistics to take care[…..]
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12 Gauge is Enough Gun
Clean Soap Scum Off Shower Doors with a Dryer Sheet
Dryer sheets are remarkably versatile outside the laundry room. Give a used dryer sheet new purpose as a shower door cleaning cloth.
Real Simple offers this advice:
Don’t toss that used dryer sheet. Sprinkle it with a few drops of water, then use it to wipe away built-up soap residue on your shower doors. It works wonders on scummy surfaces.
Don’t forget you can also wipe mineral deposits away from the faucets and other fixtures in your bathroom.
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Clean Soap Scum Off Shower Doors with a Dryer Sheet
MySQL Sandbox
Send to KindleHi there, today we will learn about an amazing tool that every single MySQL dba must know, I’m talking about MySQL Sandbox.
MySQL Sandbox is developed by Giuseppe Maxia (The Data Charmer), it’s a tool that make the installation of MySQL servers very easy. If you need to quickly create a MySQL instance for test or a replication setup(it supports master slave, circular and master master replication), this it the tool.
INSTALLATION:
Go to http://ift.tt/P4Mlki and get the latest version (I got from launchpad):
yum install perl perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker perl-Test-Simple
wget http://ift.tt/1oaY0jQ
tar -zxvf MySQL-Sandbox-3.0.44.tar.gz
cd MySQL-Sandbox-3.0.44
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
CREATING A SINGLE SANDBOX:
To create a single sandbox, all you need is the mysql package that you want install and the make_sandbox command:
[root@localhost ~]# make_sandbox mysql-5.6.17-linux-glibc2.5-i686.tar.gz unpacking /root/mysql-5.6.17-linux-glibc2.5-i686.tar.gz
Executing low_level_make_sandbox –basedir=/root/5.6.17 \
–sandbox_directory=msb_5_6_17 \
–install_version=5.6 \
–sandbox_port=5617 \
–no_ver_after_name \
–my_clause=log-error=msandbox.err
The MySQL Sandbox, version 3.0.44
(C) 2006-2013 Giuseppe Maxia
installing with the following parameters:
upper_directory = /root/sandboxes
sandbox_directory = msb_5_6_17
sandbox_port = 5617
check_port = no_check_port = datadir_from = script
install_version = 5.6
basedir = /root/5.6.17
tmpdir = my_file = operating_system_user = root
db_user = msandbox
remote_access = 127.%
bind_address = 127.0.0.1
ro_user = msandbox_ro
rw_user = msandbox_rw
repl_user = rsandbox
db_password = msandbox
repl_password = rsandbox
my_clause = log-error=msandbox.err
master = slaveof = high_performance = prompt_prefix = mysql
prompt_body = [\h] {\u} (\d) > force = no_ver_after_name = 1
verbose = load_grants = 1
no_load_grants = no_run = no_show = do you agree? ([Y],n) loading grants
.. sandbox server started
Your sandbox server was installed in $HOME/sandboxes/msb_5_6_17
To use it you can call the use script inside the sandbox folder:
[root@localhost ~]# $HOME/sandboxes/msb_5_6_17/use
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 3
Server version: 5.6.17 MySQL Community Server (GPL)
Copyright (c) 2000, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.
Type ‘help;’ or ‘\h’ for help. Type ‘\c’ to clear the current input statement.
mysql [localhost] {msandbox} ((none)) > You can manage your sandbox by calling the start / stop / restart / status script inside the sandbox folder
CREATING A MASTER SLAVE REPLICATION:
To create a master slave replication topology (by default is set to 1 master and 2 slaves but it can be changed passing the –how_many_nodes parameter) we will use the make_replication_sandbox command:
[root@localhost ~]# make_replication_sandbox mysql-5.6.17-linux-glibc2.5-i686.tar.gz installing and starting master
installing slave 1
installing slave 2
starting slave 1
…. sandbox server started
starting slave 2
.. sandbox server started
initializing slave 1
initializing slave 2
replication directory installed in $HOME/sandboxes/rsandbox_mysql-5_6_17
To use it we can call the use script, for replication, the use script will be located inside the nodeN/Master folder:
[root@localhost ~]# #MASTER
[root@localhost ~]# /root/sandboxes/rsandbox_mysql-5_6_17/master/use Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 7
Server version: 5.6.17-log MySQL Community Server (GPL)
Copyright (c) 2000, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.
Type ‘help;’ or ‘\h’ for help. Type ‘\c’ to clear the current input statement.
master [localhost] {msandbox} ((none)) > ^DBye
[root@localhost ~]# #SLAVE 1
[root@localhost ~]# /root/sandboxes/rsandbox_mysql-5_6_17/node1/use Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 5
Server version: 5.6.17-log MySQL Community Server (GPL)
Copyright (c) 2000, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.
Type ‘help;’ or ‘\h’ for help. Type ‘\c’ to clear the current input statement.
slave1 [localhost] {msandbox} ((none)) > ^DBye
[root@localhost ~]# #SLAVE 2
[root@localhost ~]# /root/sandboxes/rsandbox_mysql-5_6_17/node2/use Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 5
Server version: 5.6.17-log MySQL Community Server (GPL)
Copyright (c) 2000, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.
Type ‘help;’ or ‘\h’ for help. Type ‘\c’ to clear the current input statement.
slave2 [localhost] {msandbox} ((none)) > On replication sandbox, you can manage the individual sandbox by calling the start / stop / restart / status script inside the node / master folder or you can call the scripts ending with _all located on the sandbox folder (start_all / stop_all / restart_all / status_all).
CREATING A MULTI MASTER REPLICATION:
To create a multi-master sandbox we will use the make_replication_sandbox with –master_master option:
[root@localhost ~]# make_replication_sandbox –master_master mysql-5.6.17-linux-glibc2.5-i686.tar.gz
installing node 1
installing node 2
# server: 1: # server: 2: # server: 1: # server: 2: Circular replication activated
group directory installed in $HOME/sandboxes/rcsandbox_mysql-5_6_17
That is it, you can find more information using the help parameter on make_multiple_custom_sandbox make_multiple_sandbox make_replication_sandbox make_sandbox make_sandbox_from_installed and make_sandbox_from_source
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May Celebrations: 20 Fresh and Free WordPress Themes from May 2014
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Here we have it, our first month with all the new entries to the WordPress theme stage being designed responsive. That was faster than we had estimated. But, we won’t complain. Bootstrap is also continuing to go strong, while minimal design still rules. Administering theme options from a backend options panel is becopming more and more common. Theming is getting easier by the minute. For another month we went out into the wild to search for the newest and coolest WordPress themes available. In the following article, we introduce you to our findings.
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May Celebrations: 20 Fresh and Free WordPress Themes from May 2014
This Ten-Year Timelapse of the 9/11 Memorial Gives Us a Powerful Reminder
I was born and raised a Muslim in America, and nine years old when New York lost its Twin Towers. The next week, I started finding out that the men responsible for hijacking the four airplanes that marked that terrible day did it in the name of my religion. What happened that day changed the […]
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