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Archive for October, 2007

October 30, 2007

How to watch network interface bandwidth usage on FreeBSD

Use this command:
systat -ifstat 1
It will show something like this:
Interface Traffic Peak Total

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October 29, 2007

Anthony Robbins at TED

There are only a handful of people who’s ideas and energy have had a fundamental effect on my life and my psychology. Anthony Robbins is one of them.
When I was 18 a good friend of mine gave me Personal Power. The most valuable lesson I learned from that book was to behave like how you [...]

October 26, 2007

Crossfit Vancouver Article

The Georgia Straight’s MindBodySoul quarterly Fall 2007 issue has a two page feature on Crossfit in Vancouver. It’s good to see the guys and gals get some media exposure.
I extracted the article for easy consumption. The original full PDF is available here: http://www.straight.com/files/pdf/MBS09.pdf.
Edit: Web article here.
[tags]crossfit[/tags]

October 18, 2007

What Six Months of Crossfit Does To Your Body

A few days ago a friend of mine was asking me what happened to all my Crossfit updates. Well I’m still going strong. I’ve finished the individual private classes a few months ago and have really been enjoying the group classes. It has been about 5 or 6 months since I joined Crossfit.
I was [...]

October 17, 2007

How To Restore Files without .mac Backup

My blood ran cold as Backup’s restore didn’t work. There it was, my 10gig full backup file and Backup wouldn’t restore any of the files out of it. Five years of photos in an iPhoto library that I couldn’t get out… when I tried to restore, nothing, no files came back.
My old iMac was already [...]