Even though we all know that alcohol can lead to hangovers, the cause of a hangover is something we don’t know. Alcohol does have some positive effects on the body, although it can also lead to negative effects such as hangovers. Some doctors will actually recommend it, while others will tell you never to drink it. Even though drinking is good, moderation is the key. The easiest way to avoid hangovers is to drink in moderation – and never get drunk.

As many of us already know, whisky, bourbon, and wine can result in a much harder hangover than vodka or beer. For many people, chemicals in wines or yeast found in unfiltered beers can result in headaches. Beer, wine, and liquor can be fun and relaxing to drink, although if you aren’t careful you can easily get a headache or a hangover.

Even though the cause for hangovers is unknown, it has been proven that the headaches associated with hangovers stem from dehydration. With alcohol being a diuretic, it will make you urinate quite often. Therefore, if you drink alcohol or beer on a daily basis, your body will remain dehydrated. When you wake up in the morning with a bad headache and turn to coffee, which is also a diuretic, the process of dehydration actually gets worse.

You’ll also need to do something with the alcohol that has been left in your body. Even though a hangover can make you want to stay in bed, the secret to getting yourself back on track is movement. To rid your body of the alcohol, you’ll need sweat. Sweating gets the toxins out of your body, and helps you feel better. You can exercise or have sex to get over a hangover, as the heat your body emits will be too much for alcohol toxins to handle.

Although a hangover can be a bit of a pain, it can be prevented. The first rule of drinking any type of alcoholic beverage is to never drink on an empty stomach. If you eat a good meal before you start drinking, you’ll find that the food can help you digest the alcohol much better. When the alcohol starts to attack your stomach, you should consider eating foods that are high in fat, such as cheese. You can also sip some olive oil or drink some water. The secret to making sure that you don’t get a hangover when drinking is to drink in moderation and never let yourself get too drunk.

Beer is digested very fast by your body, which is why you should always drink beer first if you plan to mix drinks. Beer is digested the fastest, and will also help your body to absorb any other drinks you have faster. You should always keep in mind that when you drink alcohol, your body will get dehydrated. Any type of alcohol that you consume is a diuretic, therefore you should always drink water with your alcohol. Alcohol can dehydrate your body very fast – which is why you’ll need water to ensure that you stay hydrated.

Since its free, there is no support, however, feel free to drop an email to website-at-andydixon.com and I will get back to you when I can.

From my document crap pile, here is a very very brief intro to SEO:

Search Engine Optimisation is a way to get directories and search engines to give your web-site a better indexing position so that customers or anyone who is looking for your web-site can see it. The higher you are in the search engines and directories, the better chance you値l have doing business on the internet.

Here are simple steps to optimize your web-site:

Step 1: Modify your web-site – This step includes adding optimized content to all pages in the website.

Step 2: Add tags – Add or make changes to Meta tags, Title tags, H1 tags, H2 tags and alt tags for images, after keywords research.

Step 3: Link building A,
Website statistics monitoring and conversion tracking
There are offline tools that you can use to optimize your web site and it all involves your URL or your Web Domain name. I would put my web domain name on business cards, stationery, have a sign on my car, use bumper stickers or have tee shirts and coffee mugs made with the URL. I would do everything to advertise my web-site offline. This is called offline optimization of your web-site.

So web site optimization is both and online and offline deal. Online, you must use keywords to attract customers and get good search engine rankings and offline, you can advertise your URL to the public to get the to visit your web site.

Snow in Malvern

This is what you need to do:

nano -w /etc/munin/plugin-conf.d/munin-node

Find [mysql*]

Add the following, replacing **password** with the user’s password:

env.mysqlopts -u root -p**password**

Here are a few pretty pictures:

I noticed that the iostat plugin was broken and was not returning any values. To fix this you need to change a line in the plugin code.

nano -w /usr/share/munin/plugins/iostat

You need to change line 176 to read:

next unless $tmpnam !~ \/c\d+d\d+$/

In nano, press ctrl + shift + – (or ctrl+underscore) and type 177 [enter]

That should do it!

To install, simply run the following command:

sudo apt-get install munin munin-node

This will install munin, and place files in the following locations:

/etc/munin will contain munin.conf munin-node.conf plugin-conf.d plugins templates
/var/cache/munin will contain definitions.html index.html localdomain logo.png style.css

To get munin working, you will need to edit the /etc/munin/munin.conf file:

sudo nano /etc/munin/munin.conf

If you are not accessing munin from localhost, you may want to alter the apache2 config:

nano /etc/apache2/conf.d/munin

Remove the lines containing allow,deny and the next line containing 127.0.0.1. You may also want to look further down at where password protection can be enabled.

At times like this, I am thankful for Tor, which provides an encrypted darknet allowing people to still express their own opinions, no matter how controversial.

If you want a hosted WordPress (or other better blog) on Tor, email me at andy at andydixon dot com and we’ll get something sorted out.

Medibuntu

Medibuntu is a repository of packages that cannot be included into the Ubuntu distribution for legal reasons, usually it is down to patent issues, geographical patent issues or they are just perverted (there is an app which shows a woman in various states of undress depending on system load).

To install:
sudo -E wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list
sudo apt-get --quiet update
sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring
sudo apt-get --quiet update
sudo apt-get install app-install-data-medibuntu apport-hooks-medibuntu

TorProject
One of my favourite applications, Tor can be installed through Apt. In this example I am using Oneiric.

Add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list:
(If you dont know how, open a terminal window, sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list)

deb http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org oneiric main

Then add the gpg key used to sign the packages and update apt by running the following commands at your command prompt:

gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv 886DDD89
gpg --export A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89 | sudo apt-key add -
apt-get update
apt-get install tor tor-geoipdb

There are many, many more repositories. If you are feeling brave, take a look here:

http://repogen.simplylinux.ch/

This site will generate a bespoke sources.list file for any Ubuntu distribution. Keep a backup of your original config just in case…!

Anyhoo. You can selectively force traffic from different applications through Tor using torify. A word to the wise, be careful with it. There is no facility to completely prevent DNS or identity leaks. You may need to do some research.

At a command-line, prefix any command with ‘torify’. eg:

torify ssh user@foo.bar.com

or

torify ktorrent

It takes longer, but it routes (nearly) all traffic through Tor.

If you see errors such as this when you launch torify:

08:01:59 libtorsocks(7199): The symbol res_init() was not found in any shared library. The error reported was: not found!
08:01:59 libtorsocks(7199): The symbol res_query() was not found in any shared library. The error reported was: not found!
08:01:59 libtorsocks(7199): The symbol res_search() was not found in any shared library. The error reported was: not found!
08:01:59 libtorsocks(7199): The symbol res_send() was not found in any shared library. The error reported was: not found!
08:01:59 libtorsocks(7199): The symbol res_querydomain() was not found in any shared library. The error reported was: not found!
08:01:59 libtorsocks(7199): The symbol res_init() was not found in any shared library. The error reported was: not found!
08:01:59 libtorsocks(7199): The symbol res_query() was not found in any shared library. The error reported was: not found!
08:01:59 libtorsocks(7199): The symbol res_search() was not found in any shared library. The error reported was: not found!
08:01:59 libtorsocks(7199): The symbol res_send() was not found in any shared library. The error reported was: not found!
08:01:59 libtorsocks(7199): The symbol res_querydomain() was not found in any shared library. The error reported was: not found!

You can ignore them.