Trials and Tribulations by Fire

Stress is a natural and necessary consequence of living. But there’s no need for us to be subject to it in abnormal amounts. Any influence that perverts or abuses the expenditure of our energy toward our desired functions is stress.When excessive, it produces undesirable reactions, both physical and mental. Examples of stress symptoms are: overeating, drug or alcohol abuse, excessive smoking, glued to the TV, loss of appetite, boredom, twitches and tics, inability to concentrate, persistent worry and fear, hopelessness, depression, sudden lapses of memory, disturbed sleep, sudden feelings of hyper-elation, frequent colds and illness, aches, muscle cramps and chronic fatigue. It is easy to have any one of these symptoms in a very subtle form and tend to pass it off as not important. Adequate stress management, or coping with stress, must start by recognizing the underlying symptoms, then doing something about it. Our Hindu yoga practices alleviate stress – a fact which Weste...

An alliance called Hackers Against America (HAA) has received a dose of its own medicine with its own website having been defaced, according to information at the defacement archive Zone-H.org. The group had its website hosted by a free provider in Russia. According to Zone-H, it had claimed that new members were rapdily joining up, including one America who had links to the Al Qaeda group. However, one hacker (for whom Zone-H used the pseudonym Marcos) thought it was stupid to attack US server and be affiliated to terrorist groups and so he (Marcos) wrote to HAA, telling them what he thought of their ideas. The reply he got, according to Zone-H, was so full of insults that Marcos decided to see what he could do to send a message to the group. He used the headers of the mail sent to him to find the IP address and DNS of the sending server. Scanning it, he found that BIND (software used for DNS) and an FTP server were running. Zone-H said Marcos found that the versio...