GNU Gatekeeper version 5.12 has been released.

Download: https://www.gnugk.org/h323downldad.html

This is a bug fix release with a few new features added.

Another important bug in the handling of the ExternalIP switch has been fixed as well as Y2K38 issues.

This release also adds features:

• support for Oracle databases
• easier cloud deployment with IP detection with STUN
• better load scaling by mixing proxied with direct mode endpoints in a single gatekeeper
• Windows 64bit executables with VS2022

• enable more runtime hardening flags from OpenSSF recommendation 11/2023
• fix bug with H.245 address when using ExternalIP= switch without H.460.18/.19
• auto-detect public IP with ExternalIP=STUN and STUNServer=stun.example.com
• compiler support for VS2022
• new database driver for Oracle and new timestamp format 'Oracle'
• new switch [EP::xxx] ForceDirectMode=1 to handle all calls from this endpoint in direct mode
• BUGFIX(RasSrv.cxx, gkauth.cxx) make sure time_t is handled unsigned to avoid Y2K38 issue
• BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) check for too small packets when acting as encryption proxy

I have just bundeled up the changes and bug fixes of the past 2 years and released PTLib 2.10.9.6.

Most notable in this release is working IPv6 on *BSD, macOSX and Solaris as well as support for newer compilers and many small platform fixes.

Since PTLib is the foundation for the GNU Gatekeeper and many H323Plus projects, all these improvements get propagated into those projects as well.

Changes:
- IPv6 support fixed for *BSD, macOSX and Solaris
- support for newer compiler, eg. gcc 13 and VS2022
- support for C++-17
- support for Win64 builds
- support AIX as platform
- small OpenBSD fixes
- other small fixes

Download from https://www.h323plus.org/source/

GNU Gatekeeper version 5.13 has been released.

Download: https://www.gnugk.org/h323download.html

This is a bug fix release with a no new features added. It fixes an issue with the RTP port detection and 2 other minor issues.

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There has been a lot of mud-slinging over the referendum on the Alternative Vote. The “No” campaign have been particularly bad at avoiding sensible debate and resorting to fear-mongering and smears.

The polling shows they will likely win by a significant margin. They shouldn’t. And with apparently 20%+ of people still undecided, I’d like to share some thoughts that might tip the balance in some people’s heads: please share this with anybody who is still undecided.

Here are 10 very good reasons you should vote “Yes” in the AV referendum tomorrow:

1. First Past The Post (FPTP) doesn’t work in a system with more than two parties

You might only like one of the two leading parties, but you can’t deny that we live in a society where more than two parties matter. If you live in Scotland or Wales, multi-party politics is a reality even more so.

FPTP was designed when there were only two political groups in Parliament: the Tories and the Whigs. Since the birth of Labour, the reformation of the Liberals and the rise of nationalist parties and groups like the Green Party, we live in a nation where there are multiple political voices.

You might not agree with them, but you agree under a democracy that they have a right to be heard, right? So why would you persist with a system that denies them that voice?

Right now, an MP can have support of less than 20% of the people in their constituency, and be sent to Parliament on behalf of all 100%. AV eliminates that from being possible, and forces more engaged politics.

2. AV actually weakens extremist parties

There are three parties wholly against the Alternative Vote: the Conservatives, the BNP and the Communist party.

The Tories don’t like it for a variety of reasons along with some Labour MPs (see below), but the BNP and the Communist parties don’t like it because it reduces their chances of getting a seat. How? It comes down to second preference votes.

People who are inclined to vote for extremist views typically will place them first. People who put other parties first are unlikely to offer a second preference to an extremist party. That means on the whole, parties like the BNP are likely to be eliminated quite early on.

To win, a candidate must convince at least 50% of the people who vote to give them at least a second or third preference vote. The BNP and the Communists are unlikely to achieve that whilst their views and the electorate’s are so out of kilter.

Under FPTP it’s possible to win a seat with just 20% of eligible voters agreeing with you, or around 30% of voters who actually vote - a much more achievable target for extremist parties to get.

3. AV forces consensus and a new mode of political debate

You might have noticed politicians from opposite sides don’t seem to like each other very much. Most people can’t stand watching Prime Minister’s Questions for all its Punch & Judy mechanics. FPTP requires confrontation and feeds off fear-mongering.

AV forces politicians into a very different mode. They have to talk about what they’re for, rather than what they’re against (as tactical voting disappears, see below), and they need to seek out ways to find compromise and agreement rather than just shout the other side down.

You might have strong feelings against the coalition government, but you can’t deny that the disagreements seem to have been dealt with more philosophical debate than previous disputes between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. It’s not that either side has sold out completely, but rather it’s because that’s what coalitions need to work. AV turns that progressive debate into the daily routine of politics.

4. AV doesn’t cost a penny more. The only penalty is a slightly longer election night special on the BBC

There have been some preposterous claims made about the cost of AV. One leaflet suggested it would cost us £250m, and another campaign suggested that maybe the money would be better spent on hospitals.

We could argue that democracy shouldn’t have a price put on it - particularly one so low given the size of our GDP - however that’s not the point.

AV won’t cost us anything more. The referendum will cost virtually nothing as it coincides with many local elections anyway. There are no “counting machines” that need to be bought, and the cost of explaining AV to the electorate has basically already been met by the (privately-funded) “Yes” campaign and various other groups. If you don’t currently understand how AV works, you can learn it yourself in under two minutes by reading the article on Wikipedia about it.

5. FPTP supports incompetent and lazy MPs - it provides a “job for life”, undeservedly

There are a lot of very bad MPs in Parliament. You’ve probably never heard their names, but they’ve been there for a long time, and know that they have a job for life. They are in “safe seats” where it would take a political Tsunami of epic proportions to remove them.

If you analyse which Labour members support the FPTP system over AV, you will realise they are generally unpopular figures who have held safe seats whilst resorting to “we hate the other side” politics, which would likely flounder under AV: John Prescott, Margaret Beckett, et al.

The Tory back-benches are filled with a similar breed of politician. They resent the voter, on the whole.

These MPs do not represent their constituency in Parliament. They represent their party in the constituency. With perhaps no more than 35% of the vote (and often with low turnouts, just a 10-15% approval from their constituency as a whole), they know they can do pretty much what they want. For example, on average MPs in safe seats claim more in expenses than MPs in marginals, and cost the taxpayer more.

One beauty of AV is that it pretty much eliminates the concept of a safe seat. There will be some left where there is overwhelming support for a candidate, but MPs will be more inclined to fight for the continued support of their entire constituency, and therefore act more in accordance with their wishes.

6. Under AV you can - if you wish - select just one candidate (and it’s actually easier)

At the moment under FPTP you type an X in a box. Under AV, if you only want to support one candidate and have no second preference, simply write ‘I’ instead. It’s one less line. It could be argued that under AV you’ll halve your time spent actually physically voting.

OK, I’m clearly making a small joke here, but there is nothing complicated about AV if you don’t want to think about multiple candidates, just vote for the one individual you want to see elected.

But don’t you want the option of being able to specify a second candidate if your first preference doesn’t win, just in case? Isn’t the elimination of tactical voting worth it? That brings us onto…

7. Tactical voting pretty much disappears under AV

This morning I got a “the Tories can’t win here” leaflet from the Lib Dems through my door. We’ve all seen them. Basically, if you don’t want Labour to win in this ward, there is no point in voting Conservative because of how the vote is counted.

Under AV at general elections, this would make no sense. Tory voters, instead of being told their votes are futile, would be reached out to by both parties seeking to build bridges with that community who live locally.

You would no longer need to go to the polls and vote for a party you disagree with, just to keep another party out. Campaigners would instead want to listen to views across the political spectrum in the hope of getting a second preference vote from people within those groups.

It completely changes the way we think about politics and political campaigning. For the better, and permanently.

There is a more complicated explanation of how tactical voting pretty much becomes impossible under AV in a section of the Wikipedia article.

8. We all start to count again

You might have heard the phrase “Mondeo Man”, “Windsor Woman” or the like at previous elections. These are demographic groups targeted by campaigners whose vote determines the election.

You see, at the last election, it’s thought that only 1.6% of votes actually changed the outcome. Because of the way FPTP favours jobs for life, safe seats and promotes tactical voting and negative politics, experts realised that the “swing” that would win the election would come from less than 1 voter in 50.

They identified who these people were based on where they lived. They analysed their lifestyles based on demographic information and labelled them. Experts then ran focus groups composed of this tiny demographic, and party policy and manifesto promises were crafted around what was responded to by that group.

All of those billboards, manifestos, news reports and editorials. They weren’t meant for 98.4% of the electorate - they were crafted to shape the opinion of just 1.6% of the electorate.

Does that seem a reasonable way to run a democracy to you? Under AV, we all start to count again.

9. It’s not a rubbish version of PR, and we don’t want PR anyway!

Some people have argued we should hold out for Proportional Representation because that means the number of MPs representing each party is in exact proportion to the number of votes cast for that party nationally.

We don’t want that.

Note, I said the MPs would be representing each party. They would no longer represent a constituency, and would be positioned on a list based on their loyalty to the party elders and the small Westminster clique that runs politics today.

We want and need a system that means an MP is tied to a constituency. We want and need a system that makes the MP want to represent the constituency within Parliament, rather than the other way around.

PR doesn’t do that. FPTP doesn’t do that. AV does.

10. If we vote “No”, we keep the status quo for at least a generation. 

The reality is, if we collectively vote “No” to the Alternative Vote, that’s it, we don’t get any more reform for a while - probably at least a generation. The concession prize might be a reform of the House of Lords, in order to try and keep the coalition together (it’s a very weak second prize for the Lib Dems), but I suspect if we voted “Yes”, then Lords reform would be here within no more than one more Parliament anyway - it’d be popular with voters.

We all agree that the current system is broken, but if we vote “no” we’re saying “that’s OK”. We are committing our children and possibly several generations more to the broken politics we’re so disenchanted with ourselves.

So, there we have it. 10 reasons. If you need any more, feel free to email me and I’ll try and answer your questions and answer any lingering doubts before polls open tomorrow.

In the time between me publishing my list of 10 reasons for supporting the Alternative Vote and polling closing the next evening, it was read over 1,000 times. I still stand by every word of it, even though - as you no doubt have heard - the “No” campaign won it.

Annoyingly, it seems the majority of people who voted “No”, did so because of one of the following reasons:

Their favourite media outlet told them to

We have a major problem with media influence and the popular vote in most democracies, but in the UK its reached new levels. If the media was unbiased, or people sought a balance of opinion in their media consumption, I’m not sure that the vote would have gone the way it did. People seem to be reluctant to think for themselves any more.

They held strong allegiance to the way things are right now

In gambling parlance there is a phrase to dismiss somebody who has a bet on and is trying to justify their logic: talking through their pocket.

There were very, very many people on the “No” campaign who would stand to lose a lot if the vote had gone to “Yes”, not least the Prime Minister himself. I think the “Yes” campaign didn’t do enough to highlight that this was about long-term change within how politics is done and is perceived. 

What amazed me is just how many people have a vested interest in politics as they are done today. With thousands of people hoping one day to have a chance running for MP in a safe seat, able to leverage hundreds of campaigners each… we just didn’t see it coming!

They were “holding out” for PR

Possibly the most stupid reason: we don’t want PR (which the electoral commission found out without the need for a referendum), which is why it wasn’t offered. But plenty of people do want it, and so voted “No” using the warped logic this would in the long run give them more progressive politics. What they hadn’t spotted was that voting “Yes” would have led to a more progressive politics with a possibility of PR being offered within 3-4 Parliaments, maximum. Now? Even the Lib Dems are talking about a “losing a generation” before it gets brought up again.

So there we are, the vote was lost, I’m talking through my own pocket it seems, and the result is thoroughly depressing for progressives. C’est la vie…

Long Term Life Tips: Top 5 Regrets People Make on their Deathbed:

An astonishing “top 5 list” blog comes to us via longtermtips and I’m pleased to say I’m pretty sure I won’t have any of these regrets when my time inevitably comes.

By Bronnie Ware (who worked for years nursing the dying)

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People grow a lot when they…

Go read. It’s worth it. Then think on it.

Dream about what you would wish for. It might come true.

I love knowing what my friends and family are up to. I love finding out about the latest thoughts going on within my peer groups. I enjoy reading many blogs, newsletter and emails. I used to regularly get over 400 emails a day including group/mailing list traffic, followed over a thousand people on Twitter and was friends with more than 250 people on Facebook. I subscribed to over 200 blogs. I read all of it, all the time.

Mix in LinkedIn, reddit, Hacker News and a few other corners of the web, and we’re suddenly talking about a lot of data flowing into my head.

I’m led to believe that some even value the contributions I make myself from time to time.

However, I’m about to start dialling all that down. I’ve made a start in some places, but over time I’m going to stop reading anywhere near as much short-form (twitter, Facebook, etc.), a little less medium-long form (blogs), and use the time to start reading longer form work again (books) and creating more.

The reason is not because of burn-out, cynicism or some other excuse: I’m not arguing that it’s all pointless, and I’m not being a Luddite. I just want to create more, and there are only so many hours in the day.

This was prompted by going back over my resolutions posted here in December, and realising I’ve made little progress:

• I need to get my weight down. I’m finally prepared to do something about it.

• I want to create more, so will aim to not go more than two or three consecutive days without working on something creative in 2012. It could be writing (here, for example), it could be code for a personal project, or it could be something I’ve never really tried before (music? art? Don’t know yet). I basically want to spend less time reading/consuming and more time doing stuff. David Tate provides excellent inspirationif you want to consider doing the same. I’ll try to document as much of that as possible here.

• I’m going to try and shift from always being behind/late for almost everything going on in my life, to being early. I don’t know how I’m going to do this, but I suspect if I can pull it off, I’ll be calmer and happier as a result.

This, I am happy to report, seems to have actually happened for the most part. Public transport not withstanding - including my own self-sabotage - I tend to be where I need to be on-time (or early), far more than I was last year.

Back to the main point: by reading what’s going on out there, by trying out new apps, by listening to all these voices, I am feeling engaged and plugged in, but only as a consumer. The purpose of the Internet is not to simply consume but to create, amend, edit, destroy, vandalise and promote. Ideas, content, products, whatever.

Also, am I the only one who has noticed how exhausting this hosepipe of information can be on a daily - even hourly - basis? I’m tired of consuming. It’s worse than television - at least with television an editor or commissioner has attempted to do some curation.

So I’m not departing, I’m not shutting down accounts, I’m just going to read a great deal less online, to the point the relevant apps might disappear off my phone. In return, I should be able to produce a few new things to share. Watch this space!

… somebody told me this last week that replies here were pretty poor. So I’m moving this blog onto its own server in the next 7 days, along with http://p7r.io

If you’re following via RSS, I’ll shout out again when the move is complete with a new feed URL.

In the meantime, any recommendations on getting some cheap infrastructure? I have a couple of ideas, but it’s so long since I last did this, I feel as though I might be out of the loop these days. Due to the nature of poor replies here, feel free to tweet me @p7r or you can find my inbox via paul with an at symbol and then this domain.

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पोर्टेबल software के हो ?

नमस्कार मीत्र हरुहुन त मलाई पनि पोर्टेबल
software को बारे तेती धेरै जानकारी छैन तै पनि आज को पोस्टमा पोर्टेबल software को बारे केही मीत्रहरुले राख्नु भएको जिज्ञासालाई मेरो जानकारी अनुसार मेटाउने प्रयास गर्दै छु !

कम्प्युटर मा तर तर का धेरै software
हरु इन्स्टल गर्दा कम्प्युटर स्लो भै हैरान
हुनु भएका मीत्र हरु को लागि पोर्टेबल
software उपयोगी हुन सक्छ कीन त
भन्दा पोर्टेबल software लाई use
गर्न को लागि तपाई ले कम्प्युटर मा इन्स्टल
गर्नु गरुरी छैन ! यस्ता software हरु
पेनड्राइभ (*usb) मा राखेर आबस्यक
परेको बेला मा pendrive आफ्नो कम्प्युटर
मा कनेक्ट गरी software खोलि सजिलै
use गर्न सकिन्छ ! अनि काम सकिए
पछी usb disconnect गर्यो
कम्प्युटर को मेमोरी मा धेरै लोड हुदैन !
एस्त पोर्टेबल software हरु इन्टरनेट
मा फ्री मा भेट्न सकिन्छ !केही दीन
अगाडी मैले photoshop cs6 पोर्टेबेल
यो ब्लग मा राखे को थीए तर कुनै ब्यक्तीगत
कारण ले हटाउनु पर्यो यदि कसैलाई
photoshop जरुरी छ भने म संग सम्पर्क
मा आउनु होला ! यस्ता पोर्टेबल
software को अर्को राम्रो पक्क्ष
भनेको के हो भने महंगा महंगा software
हरु पनि फ्री मा सधै को लागि चलाउन
पाइन्छ ! मतलब न कुनै
लाइसेन्स वा एक्टीभेसन key को जरुरत हुन्छ
न पोइसा नै खर्छ गर्नु पर्छ ! !
अनि आफ्नो कम्प्युटर को गति पनि स्लो हुने
भएन मेरो बीचार मा पोर्टेबल software
धेरै फाइदा दीने software
हुन !

यस्ता software हरु म बेला बेला यही ब्लगमा पनि तपाई हरु लाई
उपलब्द गराउने छु ब्लग हेर्दै गर्नु होला !

कम्प्यूटर - मोबाइल चलाउने सबैले एकपटक पढनैपर्ने

हालै गरिएको एक अध्ययनले जनाए अनुसार
मोबाइलमा घण्टौं कुराकानी गर्नाले
तपाइँलाइ एग्रेसिव बनाउँने देखाएको छ ।
यदि तपाइँ
घण्टौं कम्प्यूटरको अगाडी बसिरहनु हुन्छ भने,
तपाइले स्वास्थ्य संग जोडिएका निकै
समस्याहरूको सामना गर्नुपर्ने हुन्छ ।
इन्टरनेट सर्फिङ गर्नु तपाइँलाइ
राम्रो लाग्छ होला, तर ध्यान राख्नुस यसले
तपाइँलाइ समस्यामा पनि पार्न सक्दछ । एक
ठुलो अस्पतालका आँखाका डक्टर डा. ए. के.
ग्रोवरका अनुसार निकै तिव्र टाउको दुखाइ,
आंखा रातो हुनु, आंखामा सुख्पन, गर्दन, पीठ्यु र
काँधमा लगातार पीडा जस्ता समस्याहरू
कम्प्युटर र ल्यापटप जस्ता इलेक्ट्रोनिक
ग्याजेट्समा लगातार काम गर्नाले भैरहेको छ ।
एक्सपर्ट्सका अनुसार त
कम्प्यूटरको स्क्रीनमा लगातार आंखा लगाइ
राख्नाले आंखामा ड्राई आई सिन्ड्रोम
नामको रोग पनि हुने गर्दछ ।
प्रयाजसो मानिसहरू टेन्शन, माइग्रेन
अथवा वर्क लोडको कारणले यस्तो हुने
सोच्दछन, तर यसको मुख्य कारण भने कम्प्यूटर
भिजन सिन्ड्रोम (सीवीएस) नै हो । खास
कुरा के भने यो समस्या हरेक बर्ष ६ देखि ७
प्रतिशत बढिरहेको छ ।
क्यालिफोर्निया यूनिभर्सिटीको एक
स्टडीलाइ हेर्ने हो भने, ७० प्रतिशत
भन्दा धेरै कम्प्यूटर यूजर्सलाइ बिशेष
किसिमको चस्माको आवश्यकता पर्ने गर्दछ ।
कुरा– कुरामा रिस उठनु यदि तपाइँ लगातार
मोबाइलको की- बोर्डमा औला दौडाइरहनु
हुन्छ भने, तपाइलाइ नजानिदो तरिकाले
‘कर्पल टनल सिन्ड्रोम’ नामको रोगले ग्रष्त
बनाउन सक्दछ । भलै तपाइलाइ म्यासेजिङले
अर्को व्यक्तिसंग कनेक्ट गरि राख्दछ । तर यस
कृयाकलापले तपाइको आंखाको साथ- साथै
औला तथा हातलाइ समेत नोक्सान पुर्याउन
सक्दछ । मोबाइलमा गेम खेल्ने
बेला वा एसएमएस गर्ने समय
मानिसहरूको औला निकै प्रयोग हुने गर्दछ ।
औलालाइ पटक पटक प्रेसरमा ल्याइरहँदा यसले
नसामा समेत असर पर्न सक्दछ । हात
झम्झमाउने,
कुनैपनि कुरा पक्रँदा कमजोरी तथा हात काँध
सम्म पुर्याउँदा पीडा हुने कारण
पनि यहि हो । हल्याण्डको एक
यूनिभर्सिटीमा २००
जना मानिसहरूमा गरिएको एक रिसर्च
पछि यो कुरा पत्ता लागेको हो ।
मोबाइलको प्रयोग धेरै गर्ने मानिसहरू निकै
चिडचिडेपनाको शिकार भएका छन् ।
यसो हुनुमा मोबाइलको धेरै प्रयोगनै मुख्य
रहेको कुरा डक्टरहरूले बताएका छन् ।
पेटको समस्या हुन सक्दछ एक रिसर्चमा देखिए
अनुसार मोबाइल फोनमा ट्वाइलेटको फ्लश
ह्याण्डलमा भन्दा पनि १८
गुणा बढि हानिकारक ब्याक्टेरिया हुने
गर्दछन् । समाचारपत्र डेली मेलका अनुसार,
जांचबाट फोनमा पनि निकै खतरनाक
ब्याक्टेरिया हुने गर्दछन पत्ता लागिसकेको छ
। यसै कारणले फोन प्रयोगकर्तालाइ पेट
सम्बन्धी गम्भीर रोगी हुने आशंका धेरै हुने
गर्दछ । रिपोर्टमा बताइए अनुसार
ब्रिटेनमा मात्र प्रयोग गरिएको ६.३ करोड
मोबाइल फोनमध्ये १.४७ करोड यूजर्सलाइ
स्वास्थ्य सम्बन्धी समस्या पाइएको छ ।
रिसर्च टीममा काम गरिरहेका केरी स्टेनवेले
बताए अनुसार मोबाइल फोनलाइ
यता उता राख्नाले त्यसमा ब्याक्टेरियाहरू
बस्ने गर्दछन् ।
त्यहि ब्याक्टेरिया हाम्रो हात सम्म
आइपुग्दछ । जसका कारण
हाम्रो स्वास्थ्यमा ती ब्याक्टेरिया सिधै
प्रवेश गर्न सक्दछन् । घण्टौं आँखाले नहेर्नुस यस
रिसर्चमा काम गर्ने हेल्थ एक्सपर्ट जिम
फ्रान्सिजले बताए अनुसार तपाइँ
आफ्नो आंखाको क्षमता भन्दा धेरै काम
गर्नुहुन्छ, यसले भिडियो डिस्प्ले टर्मिनल
(भिडीटी) हुने खतरा कयौं गुणाले बढ्ने गर्दछ ।
एक अध्ययन अनुसार
घण्टौं कम्प्यूटरको स्क्रीनमा आंखा लगाइ
राख्नाले हाम्रो आंखाका लागि अननेचरल
सिचुएशन हुने गर्दछ । हाम्रो आंखा र ब्रेनले
प्रिन्टेट चीजहरूलाइ जस्तो रूपले हेर्ने गर्दछन,
त्यसको तुलनामा स्क्रीनमा हेर्दा फरक
प्रतिक्रिया दिने गर्दछ । जसका कारणले
मानिसमा सीवीसी हुने गर्दछ । अर्का आई
स्पेशलिस्ट डक्टरका अनुसार लामो समय सम्म
स्क्रीन अगाडी बस्नाले निकै इनर्जी खर्च हुने
गर्दछ, जुन आंखाका लागी निकै च्यालेन्ज पूर्ण
हुने गर्दछ । दोश्रो कम्प्यूटरमा काम गर्ने
क्रममा आँखा कम झिम्कने गर्दछ ।
प्रायजसो एक मिनेटमा १४ पटक
आँखा झिम्काइन्छ । तर
कम्प्यूटरको प्रयोगका बेला
हामी ४ देखि ६ पटक मात्र आँखा झिम्क्याउने
गर्दछौं । यसका कारण आंखामा स्व्इलिङ र
मोतिबिन्दु जस्ता समस्याहरू आउँदछन् ।
केही कुरामा ध्यान राखौं आफ्नो कम्प्युटर
स्क्रीनको कन्ट्रास्ट र ब्राइटनेसलाइ नर्मल
राख्नुस । छिटो छिटो आँखा झिम्क्याउने गर्नुस
। केही बेरको अन्तरमा आंखालाइ
केही सेकेण्डका लागी बन्द गर्ने गर्नुस ।
यस्तो गर्दा तपाइँको आंखालाइ आराम पुग्दछ ।
यस्तो कार्य हरेक ३० मिनेटमा गर्ने गर्नुस ।
कम्प्यूटर यूजर्सका लागी बनाइएको स्पेशल
चश्माको प्रयोग गर्नुहोस ।
यो चस्मा ती मानिसहरूका लागी बनाइएको हो
, जो मानिसहरू लामो समय सम्म
कम्प्युटरमा बसेर काम गर्ने गर्दछन् । के भन्दछ
त रिसर्च ? लण्डन यूनिभर्सिटीको एक रिसर्च
अनुसार, जो मानिस कम्प्युटरमा ४
घण्टा भन्दा बढि समय बितउँदछन, उनीहरूलाइ
अन्य मानिसको तुलनामा १२५ प्रटिशत धेरै
हृदय सम्बन्धी रोगहरू लाग्ने सम्भावना रहन्छ
। रिसर्चबाट कम्प्यूटरमा धरै समय बिताउने
मानिसहरूलाइ मृत्यु हुने खतरा अन्य
मानिसहरूको तुलनामा ४५ प्रतिशत धेरै हुने
गर्दछ ।
यदि तपाइँ हरेक दिन ४ घण्टा भन्दा धेरै
मोबाइलमा कुरा गर्नुहुन्छ भने तपाइँको ब्यवहार एग्रेसिभ हुने गर्दछ ।

क्यालिफोर्निया यूनिभर्सिटी बर्कलेको एक
अध्ययन अनुसार, ७० प्रतिशत भन्दा धेरै
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And the real estate journey continues … Sylvia and I started Crossland Real Estate in Jan 1993, and remained independent until we sold our property management portfolio in 2004 and “retired” for a year. We didn’t actually formally retire … more of a sabbatical … as we were still in our 40s with kids 9 and 12. But we did take a year off from active real estate “production”. We weren’t sure whether we wanted to remain in real estate forever or not. I started a telecom services company and dabbled in Business Brokerage, both of which were interesting pursuits worthy of a full effort, and which I could have succeeded at doing, but after some time off from the daily real estate routine, something happened… The phone rang. It was Real Estate. It wanted us back. Sometimes distance from something brings perspective and a renewed appreciation of it. So, ... Read more

Should you enroll in a Real Estate investment seminar in Austin or your home town? Be very careful if you do. Understand the risks and what you are paying.

New York Times columnist Paul Sullivan recently wrote about this DJ posing as a financial advisor. It was one of those setups like you see on TV. They removed his dreadlocks and body piercings, put him in a suit, taught him some basic scripts like “a 401K is the way to go“, and had him meet with actual financial clients to discuss their financial needs and how he can help. When he went for the “close”, all but 1 client said they would work with him. He had zero experience, no qualifications (though I’ll bet his conversational skills helped). But since he looked the part and knew some buzz phrases, and the prospective clients didn’t know the right questions to ask, he was able to win their trust just by being nice and personable. The point of the experiment was to illustrate that the vast majority of financial clients do ... Read more

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