We are back.  Here is the path.

I’ve always liked the 4-H pledge. The only change I would make today is to replace “club” with “family”.

I pledge my Head to clearer thinking,
My Heart to greater loyalty,
My Hands to larger service,
And My Health to better living,
For my club, my community,
my country, and my world.

from Entrepreneurs and Tech Startups: Who’s Doing What When? :

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“Because entrepreneurship is an indicator of economic vitality in regions and across the country, this study raises important policy questions about how to foster greater tech entrepreneurship to boost economic growth,” said Robert Litan, vice president of Research and Policy at the Kauffman Foundation. “Probably the most compelling fact in the study is that advanced education is critical to the success of tech startups.”
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The vast majority (92 percent) of U.S.-born tech founders held bachelor’s degrees, 31 percent held master’s degrees, and 10 percent had completed PhDs.
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Nearly half (45 percent) of the tech startups were established in the same state where U.S.-born tech founders received their education. Of the U.S.-born tech founders receiving degrees from California, 69 percent later created a startup in the state; Michigan, 58 percent; Texas, 53 percent; and Ohio, 52 percent. In contrast, Maryland retained only 15 percent; Indiana, 18 percent; and New York, 21 percent.
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I have heard good things about Ireland’s essentially free college program.

Personally, my college education paid for its self in 5 years. I know that I’m the exception, but I don’t know that folks interested in living locally understand the effect of a college education on their potential.

As a way to promote college educations and entrepreneurs here we can make college loans to local kids. We can offer deferments while going to school or starting a local company. If we are successful, the those individuals will be able to pay back many fold.

Even if the loan doesn’t change the mind of a young person to return to the community after college, the loan program will be a vehicle for us to enforce how important an education can be.

What are your feelings and ideas about building a path to unite the healthy destinations of the community? Here is a map of my idea.

I think it addresses a couple things.

• Opportunity: Missy and I are concerned that there are kids in the community who do not participate in organized activities because their parent won’t, don’t or can’t get them signed up and take them to the events. I think the natural local organizations to support these kids are the Y and Camp Yale. Opening walking and biking access to the Y and Camp Yale would allow these kids to participate more.
• Access: The Winchester Path to Health opens up locations like the soccer fields at Driver, the Y, Camp Yale and the 4H grounds as walking destinations.
• Rational: How many folks that you know drive somewhere to exercise? I hope I don’t need to explain the waste there.
• Healthy Living: The path from the map ties the health related parts of our community together (parks, ball fields, Y, etc.)
• Incremental: This project would be an improvement to what we already have. It can be done in small steps. For instance, initially the cemetery to Camp Yale path could be mowed grass.
• Safe: The path north of 100S is already covered by city policy patrols and most of it already has street lights, for instance there is a street light in front of my house.

Some issues with the path are:

• There would need to be fence between the path and the railroad out by the Ohio Valley Gas path.
• A side walk along Short Street may be difficult to build. I would suggest widening Short Street and putting in a guard rail.
• Many parts of the path with existing sidewalk will require improvements, while other parts need built from scratch. Where traffic is slow, it may be possible to use the roadways (with appropriate signage and road paint). In Winchester homeowners are responsible for sidewalks, but something would need to be worked out for the trail.
• Signage would be required to make the path a cohesive entity.
• Some additional street lights (east Short St., parts of Base Rd. S.) would need to be added.
• Bikes are not allowed on the Goodrich Park loop or Ohio Valley Gas loop. These policies could be revisited to allow for kids to bike to the Y, ball parks, etc.
• The side walk from the cemetery entrance to Camp Yale will require moving a fence, excavation, and paving. We are willing to help with our section.

Shouldn’t backups be pretty standard and easy?

Shouldn’t they be live on the network?

arg.

My current solution is to schedule a job to rsync to my main server.

rsync -za --rsync-path=/usr/local/bin/ssnap.sh . backupserver:backups

That command will copy ‘.’ to backupserver in the directory backups, but instead of using ‘rsync -server’, it will call ‘ssnap.sh -server’. Basically, it maintains 18 copies hardlinked together in ~/backups/$date_stamp} on the backupserver, so files that haven’t changed don’t take up extra space or network bandwidth. I’ve found no problem running this to backup my wife’s complete XP machine across our asymetric DSL nightly.

Now all I need on a client machine to back it up is working rsync. My Linux server has rsync and ssnap.sh installed.

Sounds great doesn’t it?! The problem is getting rsync/ssh installed on all the different client machines, getting public/private keys set up. for all the users. I add a new user to my systems about once a month.

Shouldn’t the OS manage access to all resources? For instance a device driver would advertise the memory addresses that it expects to access. Access to any address out of that range would result in an error. Same for applications. Then when an application starts for the first time, the user could choose to grant or deny access to particular resources. A signature system could be used for the detailed descriptions like device drivers, but some thing like the Java Sandbox could be used for most apps. (Your editor doesn’t need memory access or network access, just filesystem acccess.)

This would alert folks to what a virus is doing. Currently to do this you either need to run the app in an emulator or disassebly it.

Joe