My little Dell D430 running OSX Lion 10.7.4 is limited to 2gb of memory – hence why i keep a constant eye on what i spend resources on.

So, i decided to take all 3 services out for a spin and have a look at their memory usage.

All 3 clients is setup with the same amount of files – synced and idle – further more – i rebooted the machine after it had finished sync and let it run idle for and hour or two.

Memory stats:
Skydrive: 84,4mb
gDrive: 96,6mb
Dropbox: 53,5mb

What is worth to notice is that Dropbox and gDrive remained stable – while skydrive was slowing leaking memory.. i asume its some bug MS needs to straithen out.

How is it working for you ?

Original Post: OSX: Google Drive, Dropbox & Skydrive compared on memory usage

A few years back, I interviewed some of the most successful CEOs in the world in order to discover their management secrets. I learned that the “best of the best” tend to share the following eight core beliefs.

1. Business is an ecosystem, not a battlefield.

Average bosses see business as a conflict between companies, departments and groups. They build huge armies of “troops” to order about, demonize competitors as “enemies,” and treat customers as “territory” to be conquered.

Extraordinary bosses see business as a symbiosis where the most diverse firm is most likely to survive and thrive. They naturally create teams that adapt easily to new markets and can quickly form partnerships with other companies, customers … and even competitors.

2. A company is a community, not a machine.

Average bosses consider their company to be a machine with employees as cogs. They create rigid structures with rigid rules and then try to maintain control by “pulling levers” and “steering the ship.”

Extraordinary bosses see their company as a collection of individual hopes and dreams, all connected to a higher purpose. They inspire employees to dedicate themselves to the success of their peers and therefore to the community–and company–at large.

3. Management is service, not control.

Average bosses want employees to do exactly what they’re told. They’re hyper-aware of anything that smacks of insubordination and create environments where individual initiative is squelched by the “wait and see what the boss says” mentality.

Extraordinary bosses set a general direction and then commit themselves to obtaining the resources that their employees need to get the job done. They push decision making downward, allowing teams form their own rules and intervening only in emergencies.

4. My employees are my peers, not my children.

Average bosses see employees as inferior, immature beings who simply can’t be trusted if not overseen by a patriarchal management. Employees take their cues from this attitude, expend energy on looking busy and covering their behinds.

Extraordinary bosses treat every employee as if he or she were the most important person in the firm. Excellence is expected everywhere, from the loading dock to the boardroom. As a result, employees at all levels take charge of their own destinies.

5. Motivation comes from vision, not from fear.

Average bosses see fear–of getting fired, of ridicule, of loss of privilege–as a crucial way to motivate people.  As a result, employees and managers alike become paralyzed and unable to make risky decisions.

Extraordinary bosses inspire people to see a better future and how they’ll be a part of it.  As a result, employees work harder because they believe in the organization’s goals, truly enjoy what they’re doing and (of course) know they’ll share in the rewards.

6. Change equals growth, not pain.

Average bosses see change as both complicated and threatening, something to be endured only when a firm is in desperate shape. They subconsciously torpedo change … until it’s too late.

Extraordinary bosses see change as an inevitable part of life. While they don’t value change for its own sake, they know that success is only possible if employees and organization embrace new ideas and new ways of doing business.

7. Technology offers empowerment, not automation.

Average bosses adhere to the old IT-centric view that technology is primarily a way to strengthen management control and increase predictability. They install centralized computer systems that dehumanize and antagonize employees.

Extraordinary bosses see technology as a way to free human beings to be creative and to build better relationships. They adapt their back-office systems to the tools, like smartphones and tablets, that people actually want to use.

8. Work should be fun, not mere toil.

Average bosses buy into the notion that work is, at best, a necessary evil. They fully expect employees to resent having to work, and therefore tend to subconsciously define themselves as oppressors and their employees as victims. Everyone then behaves accordingly.

Extraordinary bosses see work as something that should be inherently enjoyable–and believe therefore that the most important job of manager is, as far as possible, to put people in jobs that can and will make them truly happy.

Original Post: 8 Core Beliefs of Extraordinary Bosses

To join the competion, simply goto Malins blog and throw a comment.

//Leon

Original Post: Malins is running a groupon competion

Hvis du vil hjälpe hende, skal du blot lave en post hvor du linker på ordet bande banderoller Piteå

//Leon….

Original Post: Lidt sjov på kontoret…

This short guide will show you howto setup a VPN server in Debian with ONE network card.

1. Install the required packages

apt-get install pptpd dnsmasq

2. Configure the IP range assigned to clients by running: pico /etc/pptpd.conf

localip 10.0.0.1-99
remoteip 10.0.0.100-199,10.0.0.245

Using this config the clients are assigned any IP address between and including 10.0.0.100 and 10.0.0.199

3. Create a user allowed to connect by running: pico /etc/ppp/chap-secrets

<user1> * <secretpassword> *

Passwords are not encrypted. This allows the a user with the username: user1 and the password: secretpassword to login from any ip address.

4. Enable IP forward at startup to allow the VPN clients to connect to the server’s local network by running: pico /etc/sysctl.conf

net.ipv4.ip_forward=1

Also run this command to activate the IP forward instantly:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

5. Create a routing rule to allow the VPN clients to route network traffic through the server.
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE

6.  Add DNS configuration to your setup by running: pico /etc/ppp/options

ms-dns 10.0.0.1
ms-dns 8.8.8.8

7. Create a virtual network interface for 10.0.0.1
pico /etc/network/interfaces

Add this:

auto eth0:0
iface eth0:0 inet static
address 10.0.0.1
netmask 255.255.255.0

Now.. reboot and enjoy VPN!

Note(s):
1) On Ubuntu server, i had to create a “startup” script with the line below in order to enable data routing.
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE

Original Post: Howto setup a VPN Server in Linux

Apple today announced Mac OS X Mountain Lion, the next major update to its desktop operating system. As 9to5Mac first learned back in October, Mountain Lion sports a bunch of major new features, including new apps iMessage and Notification Center – plus the AirPlay mirroring feature. According to the people Apple invited to a private briefing a few day ago, Mountain Lion is all about putting even more iOS into the bowels of Mac OS X. iOS-ification of Mac OS X continues in Mountain Lion with

With over a hundred million iCloud accounts now in use, Mountain Lion’s setup assistant will ask you to set up an iCloud account for the Documents in the Cloud feature. You will also be able to access your iCloud storage in Finder and drag and drop documents for manual syncing between iOS apps that support Documents in the Cloud and their desktop counterparts.

Mountain Lion Beta is available to Mac Developer Program members starting today whilst end-users will be able to upgrade to Mountain Lion from the Mac App Store in late summer 2012. The company also pledged to update Mac OS X once a year from now on. Check out past the fold for full release, more features and two additional press shots.

Apple Releases OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview with Over 100 New Features

CUPERTINO, California—February 16, 2012—Apple today released a developer preview of OS X Mountain Lion, the ninth major release of the world’s most advanced operating system, which brings popular apps and features from iPad to the Mac and accelerates the pace of OS X innovation. Mountain Lion introduces Messages, Notes, Reminders and Game Center to the Mac, as well as Notification Center, Share Sheets, Twitter integration and AirPlay Mirroring. Mountain Lion is the first OS X release built with iCloud in mind for easy setup and integration with apps. The developer preview of Mountain Lion also introduces Gatekeeper, a revolutionary security feature that helps keep you safe from malicious software by giving you complete control over what apps are installed on your Mac. The preview release of Mountain Lion is available to Mac Developer Program members starting today. Mac users will be able to upgrade to Mountain Lion from the Mac App Store™ in late summer 2012.

“The Mac is on a roll, growing faster than the PC for 23 straight quarters, and with Mountain Lion things get even better,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “The developer preview of Mountain Lion comes just seven months after the incredibly successful release of Lion and sets a rapid pace of development for the world’s most advanced personal computer operating system.”

The developer preview of Mountain Lion features the all new Messages app which replaces iChat and allows you to send unlimited messages, high-quality photos and videos directly from your Mac to another Mac or iOS device. Messages will continue to support AIM, Jabber, Yahoo! Messenger and Google Talk. Starting today Lion users can download a beta of Messages from www.apple.com, and the final version will be available with Mountain Lion. Reminders and Notes help you create and track your to-dos across all your devices. Game Center lets you personalize your Mac gaming experience, find new games and challenge friends to play live multiplayer games, whether they’re on a Mac, iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.

Mountain Lion presents notifications in an elegant new way, and Notification Center provides easy access to alerts from Mail, Calendar, Messages, Reminders, system updates and third party apps. System-wide Share Sheets make it easy to share links, photos and videos directly from Apple and third party apps. Twitter is integrated throughout Mountain Lion so you can sign on once and tweet directly from Safari, Quick Look, Photo Booth, Preview and third party apps. Mountain Lion also introduces AirPlay Mirroring, an easy way to wirelessly send a secure 720p video stream of what’s on your Mac to an HDTV using Apple TV.

More than 100 million users have iCloud accounts, and Mountain Lion makes it easier than ever to set up iCloud and access documents across your devices. Mountain Lion uses your Apple ID to automatically set up Contacts, Mail, Calendar, Messages, FaceTime and Find My Mac. The new iCloud Documents pushes any changes to all your devices so documents are always up to date, and a new API helps developers make document-based apps work with iCloud.

Gatekeeper is a revolutionary new security feature that gives you control over which apps can be downloaded and installed on your Mac. You can choose to install apps from any source, just as you do on a Mac today, or you can use the safer default setting to install apps from the Mac App Store, along with apps from developers that have a unique Developer ID from Apple. For maximum security, you can set Gatekeeper to only allow apps from the Mac App Store to be downloaded and installed.

Mountain Lion also has features specifically designed to support Chinese users, including significant enhancements to the Chinese input method and the option to select Baidu search in Safari. Mountain Lion makes it easy to set up Contacts, Mail and Calendar with top email service providers QQ, 126 and 163. Chinese users can also upload video via Share Sheets directly to leading video websites Youku and Tudou, and system-wide support for Sina weibo makes microblogging easy.

Hundreds of new APIs give developers access to new core technologies and enhanced features within OS X. The Game Kit APIs tap into the same services as Game Center on iOS, making it possible to create multiplayer games that work across Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. A new graphics infrastructure underpins OpenGL and OpenCL and implements GLKit, first introduced in iOS 5, to make it easier to create OpenGL apps. Using Core Animation in Cocoa apps is easier than ever, and new video APIs deliver modern 64-bit replacements for low-level QuickTime APIs. Enhanced Multi-Touch™ APIs give developers double-tap zoom support and access to the system-wide lookup gesture. Kernel ASLR improves security through enhanced mitigation against buffer overflow attacks.

Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.

Original Post: Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Developer Preview with deep iOS integration: Messages, Notification Center, AirPlay, Game Center, Twitter and more

• libtorrent 0.13.0
• rTorrent 0.9
• ruTorrent Web UI (3.0)

This guide has been tested with Debian 6 (x86_64) and Ubuntu 11.04 (x86_64).

To start, access your VPS via SSH (as the root user) and do the following to update your platform and install some required dependencies:

# apt-get update
# apt-get install subversion build-essential automake libtool libcppunit-dev libcurl3-dev libsigc++-2.0-dev unzip unrar-free curl libncurses-dev
# apt-get install apache2 php5 php5-cli php5-curl

Enable scgi for Apache:

# apt-get install libapache2-mod-scgi
# ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/scgi.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/scgi.load

Install XMLRPC:

# mkdir /install;cd /install
# svn checkout http://xmlrpc-c.svn.sourceforge.net/…mlrpc-c/stable xmlrpc-c
# cd xmlrpc-c
# ./configure –disable-cplusplus
# make
# make install

Intall libtorrent:

# cd /install
# wget http://vps6.net/src/libtorrent-0.13.0.tar.gz
# tar xvf libtorrent-0.13.0.tar.gz
# cd libtorrent-0.13.0
# ./configure
# make
# make install

Install rTorrent:

# cd /install
# wget http://vps6.net/src/rtorrent-0.9.0.tar.gz
# cd rtorrent-0.9.0
# ./configure –with-xmlrpc-c
# make
# make install
# ldconfig

Create required directories:

# mkdir /home/seeder1/rtorrent
# mkdir /home/seeder1/rtorrent/.session
# mkdir /home/seeder1/rtorrent/watch
# mkdir /home/seeder1/rtorrent/download

Setup .rtorrent.rc file (rTorrent config):

# cd ~/
# wget http://vps6.net/src/.rtorrent.rc
# cp .rtorrent.rc /home/seeder1/

(Edit the settings in .rtorrent.rc, like max upload/download speed, max connected peers, etc, as needed.)

Install rTorrent:

# cd /install
# wget http://vps6.net/src/rutorrent-3.0.tar.gz
# tar xvf rutorrent-3.0.tar.gz
# mv rutorrent /var/www
# wget http://vps6.net/src/plugins-3.0.tar.gz
# tar xvf plugins-3.0.tar.gz
# mv plugins /var/www/rutorrent
# rm -rf /var/www/rutorrent/plugins/darkpal
# chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/rutorrent

Secure /rutorrent:

# a2enmod ssl
# a2enmod auth_digest
# a2enmod scgi
# openssl req $@ -new -x509 -days 365 -nodes -out /etc/apache2/apache.pem -keyout /etc/apache2/apache.pem
# chmod 600 /etc/apache2/apache.pem
# htdigest -c /etc/apache2/passwords seedbox seeder1

(Enter a password of your choice when prompted, you will use this to log in to the ruTorrent web UI.)

# cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
# rm -rf default
# wget http://vps6.net/src/default
# a2ensite default-ssl
# /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

Install screen:

# apt-get install screen

Start rTorrent in a detached shell using screen:

# screen -fa -d -m rtorrent

(To start rtorrent automatically when the VPS is booted, add the above command to /etc/rc.local)

You can now access ruTorrent at http://xx.xx.xx.xx/rutorrent/ (replace xx.xx with your server’s IP address). You should be greeted with a login prompt, where the username is “seeder1″ and the password is the one you set above in the “secure /rutorrent” section.

Original Post: How to Install rTorrent/ruTorrent on Debian/Ubuntu VPS

So, we’ve shot down SOPA and PIPA. Congratulations Internets for a job well done. Mission accomplished, right? Not so much. While that’s two bad pieces of legislation pushed back, there’s much more where that came from. Leaving aside existing nastiness like the DMCA, we also have the even nastier Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) (PDF). How bad is it? Bad enough that the European Parliament’s rapporteur for ACTA (Kader Arif) resigned over it today (January 27, 2012). Unfortunately for those of us in the United States, President Obama has already ratified ACTA on behalf of the United States.

Original Post: Why ACTA Is Unacceptable

If you ever though that SOPA was bad, then its nothing compared to ACTA.

ACTA is just about as bad as it gets… check out this video…

Read more here: https://www.accessnow.org/ or ..

.. sign the petetion against ACTA: http://www.stopp-acta.info/english/get+involved/petition/petition.html .. and one more… http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_save_the_internet_spread/

By signing the above, you help raise your voice against this madness!

Original Post: Stop ACTA

The disk used is a 7200 RPM WD Disk with an external casing that supports both usb2+3+esata .. the Machine is a Dell Latitude E6220 with a Intel Series 510 SSD, 8gb memory and Windows 7

I used HD tach to test… now.. check this out…

USB 2.0 with and Average of 30 mb/s

USB 3.0 with and average of 80 mb/s and dropping to 50 mb/s

E-sata with and average of 110 mb/s and dropping to 50 mb/s

.. and offcourse.. the winner without any doubt…

Intel SSD, internally – going steady at 320 mb/s

.. god i love SSD

Original Post: USB 2 vs. USB 3 vs. e-sata vs. SSD

Original Post: Run windows application on OSX with ease

For those of you who is into SEO, then you properly also know Advanced Webranking.

With the latest 8.5 update they have added more neat features, wich is great.. well.. except if you are running low resolution – because then you will have a problem seeing all the icons in the sidebar.

The solution/fix is:

1. Go to Settings -> Applications menu and select Small font size

2. Go to the Settings -> Application menu and select the “Use default window decorations” check box.

Original Post: Advanced WebRanking (AWR) 8.5 and low resolution (fix)

Poking around in the ~/Library folder, you can find a ‘Mobile Documents’ folder that is used for syncing iWork documents. But it turns out you are not limited to iWork files if you just want to sync between Macs (i.e. no iOS use).

If you are using iCloud and have the ‘Documents & Data’ option selected in the preference pane, you can navigate to ~/Library/Mobile Documents. Depending on whether or not you’ve used iWork and synced documents to iCloud, you may or may not find folders there for each of the iWork applications (e.g. com~apple~numbers).

This doesn’t really matter. What is of use is that any files put into the ~/Library/Mobile Documents folder will automatically upload to iCloud and push to any other Mac you have that is signed in to the same iCloud account and has the ‘Document & Data’ iCloud preference checked. Lion even notifies you of version conflicts and allows you to resolve them when you open the document.

While its not entirely like with mobileme – its one step in the right direction

Original Post: iCloud: Sync settings, files and documents across macs

I recently upgraded my Dell D430 to run OSX Lion – and with that i noticed that coolbook no longer is working.

The problem lies within AppleACPIPlatform.kext in Lion and the solution is to replace it with the one from Snow Leopard 10.6.7

Howto fix it:

1. Download kexthelper
2. Download AppleACPIPlatform.kext from 10.6.7
3. Extract both to desktop
4. Use kexthelper to install AppleACPIPlatform.kext
5. Reboot
6. Reinstall coolbook

Enjoy!

Original Post: Fix coolbook to work with OSX Lion

So who cares? My old boss certainly didn’t, but then he was right out of the old school. Ash all over his blazer, half a bottle of Merlot to the wind most of the time. That’s an attitude that modern workers simply can’t have anymore, not if they want to keep their positions. So if you want to get your nicotine hit and you don’t want to get on the wrong side of your own boss, who’s probably way more new school than mine was, it’s electric cigarettes or nothing.

See, the only way people who do not use electronic cigarettes can get their hit at work these days is by going out for a cigarette break. Now, the more stressful or involved your job, as a nicotine user, the more likely it is that you will want to smoke. So you end up trolling downstairs every ten minutes, coming back out of breath and stinking of smoke.

Your more angelic colleagues start giving you the bad eye because you smell so bad. If it was only the smell you could probably put up with it. After all, smokers can’t smell what they smell like so that doesn’t really matter to you unless you are particularly sensitive.

No, the problem for smokers who don’t use electronic cigarettes is much more fundamental than that. Why, say all your co workers (and quite rightly too, to give them their due), should he (or she) get to nip off every ten minutes just because she (or he) smokes? A heavy smoker could end up doing an hour’s less work than everyone else and never being penalised for it.

So your choice becomes: smoke electric cigarettes instead, which means you can stay at your desk and work just as hard as everyone else; carry on as you are and risk the ire of your manager; or go on regulated, unpaid cigarette breaks, which penalise you for what is essentially an illness. You’re an addict, after all: and in most cases addicts get treated with an amount of leeway commensurate (up to a point of practicality) with the severity of their affliction.

Nicotine addiction is one of the worst addictive illnesses there is. Electronic cigarettes are not a cure – they can’t be, they’ve got nicotine in them – but they are an excellent palliative. They’re socially acceptable and it is completely legal to “smoke” them indoors. They give off no second hand nasties and there is no pollution or tar in the vapour they emit.

Ecigarettes mean you can work all day and all night if you like, puffing on nicotine whenever the craving grabs you. I suppose if you really wanted to extol their virtues you could even say that they actually impress the boss. After all, you’ve gone to the trouble of doing something about your habit.

Original Post: The Job Advantages of Electric Cigarettes over Traditional Ones

Original Post: Beroende

Vad gör ni hemma i stugorna idag?

Original Post: Nellies första besök på biblioteket

Jag skulle vilja kasta ut minst hälften av mina kläder i garderoben till fördel för nya.
Men alltså januari, som inte ens är slut, har resulterat i en bokad utlandsresa, en husbesiktning, ny skidutrustning till sonen och renovering av köket.
Jag får drömshoppa at the internet istället.

Original Post: Lunchbuffé

Antagligen information som ni sannerligen inte hade klarat er utan.

Original Post: Ett träningspass