Monday, February 18, 2019

I CanT Promise That Building A Business Is All Roses And Sunshine

I can’t promise that building a business is all roses and sunshine. It’s just not. It’s competitive! If you step into the boxing ring, you are going to get punched. If you understand that ahead of time, you can adapt and conquer. If you run into those days where you feel burdened, frustrated, annoyed and overwhelmed – KEEP FIGHTING! The people who quit too early are the ones stuck in cubicle farms.

There have been plenty of times when I have thought about giving up working for myself. I’ve even sent out resumes before when I just felt overwhelmed trying to do it on my own. Fortunately, nobody wants to hire me, so I have no choice but to endure. I haven’t considered working for someone else for at least four years, so don’t worry, it’s not like I was blasting out resumes yesterday! We just all have those days where we want to pass on the responsibility to someone else, a boss or a guru or a master that will take care of us and show us the way.

But the terrible and life-affirming truth is that there’s nobody that can take care of you like you can take care of yourself.

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

IN SOME CASES THE APP IS ASSOCIATED WITH A BROADER SERVICE SO WHILE

In Some Cases The App Is Associated With A Broader Service So While

If you want to see more information about a given app before you download it, simply highlight the app in question and press the select button to open the overview page. There’s a lot of helpful stuff on this page, including the cost of the app (if it’s not free) and general information about the app itself.

The price that is listed on an app is how much it costs to buy the app itself. In some cases, the app is associated with a broader service, so while the app itself is free you’ll still need to pay a monthly subscription fee through the company or have the associated channel included in your cable package before you’ll be able to use it.

If you’re downloading a lot of different channels that you’ll be gaining access to through your cable provider, you can use the single sign-on feature to enter your credentials for all of them at once.

On each app, you’ll see a “Works With” section on the overview page. This tells you what kind of controller or remote you need to correctly use the app, and is mostly important for games that might have controls more advanced than the included remote can handle. You can buy Fire Stick-specific game controls through Amazon that look similar to an Xbox controller for about $30-$40 if you want to do more complex gaming on your device.

Saturday, February 9, 2019

i picked my way to the back of the shed

The crescent moon was back in the sky, casting dim shadows in the night. Up ahead, a dark mass blotted out the trees lining the road. Limping, I approached it, veering off the shoulder to have a look. It was an old barn or shed, its weather-beaten planks curled with time. There was no door. I pulled my headlamp out of my backpack and turned it on.

“Hello!” I called out.

The interior was littered with haphazardly discarded items—boards, old shoes, a rusting tricycle. An ancient Chevy truck sat hunched in one corner, no wheels and on blocks, covered in garbage.

“Hello!”

My voice echoed without answer. I was exhausted. Beyond exhausted. I picked my way to the back of the shed. In the light of my headlamp, I passed something that looked like an old sheet—Maybe a curtain?—and I picked it up. It was stiff with dirt, but I shook it out and cleaned it off as best I could.

I shivered, the damp sweat still sticking to my back, chilling me in the cool night air.

Reaching the Chevy, I climbed up and opened the door. A long bench seat greeted me inside, and I smiled, jumping in behind the wheel. Putting my backpack down as a pillow, I closed the door and lay down, pulling the curtain around me.

How Do I Scan A Network

Scanning the network and its components is easy using Nmap

Before we go over to see how I can scan a network, I want to explain what this scanning means. What do I mean by the end when I say I scanned the X.Y.Z.A network? I refer to the fact that I used a certain program (in this case Nmap) to find out which devices are connected to the network at the moment.

Not only did we find out what these devices are (see their IP address and MAC address) but we can find out more information like:

The type of the device

The OS and its version

Open ports

Network applications that run on those ports

etc.

Once we have this information, we can use them to better understand how the network is structured, to scan and then test the network and vulnerability servers (in an ethical way) to make sure all devices are up & running. These, of course, are just a few reasons why scanning the network and the devices in it makes sense.

How do I scan a network?

Scanning the network (and its components) is easy, using Nmap. Nmap comes from Network Mapper and helps us "map" the network into an output (from the terminal) quite easy to understand. The program I use in the example below (for scanning the network) is called Nmap. Nmap (on Windows, the graphical interface program is called Zenmap) is a free tool extremely used by hackers and ethical hackers.

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

for example s3 creates events when objects are created and removed

For Example S3 Creates Events When Objects Are Created And Removed

Now, let’s test it again, but this time, change the sample event object to:

"username" : "Sally"

Your test output should now read “Hello, Sally.”

AWS Events

You are probably wondering how an event is created outside of the test dialog. In most cases, the event object is created by AWS when an event occurs. For example, S3 creates events when objects are created and removed. If you’ve configured your Lambda function to act in response to such an event, the event object will contain information from S3 such as the bucket, key, request ID, time information, and much more. To properly create a Lambda function, you will need to look at the format of these events and process them accordingly.

At the time of this book’s publication, AWS supports triggering Lambda functions from: S3 create and remove events, DynamoDB row updates, CloudWatch Logs “put” events, SNS notifications, Kinesis events, and Alexa voice commands. Exploring each of these services is beyond the scope of this book, but I will be using S3 events frequently in my examples. As of now, they are relatively easy to test and don’t require setting up additional, costly resources.

The following sample event comes from an S3 “put object” request:

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Of course there are all kinds of other headaches you can run into and

Of Course There Are All Kinds Of Other Headaches You Can Run Into And

These issues cover the majority of the main things we see go wrong in QuickBooks. Of course, there are all kinds of other headaches you can run into and while these minor problems are not covered here, if you do all of the above correctly, anything else that comes up should be a walk in the park.

What This Book is Not

As you may have already realized, from looking at the types of problems we aim to identify and resolve in the table, we are dealing with fundamental accounting mistakes, not one off glitches or minor unique problems.

This is not a guide on how to find the missing seventeen cents on your reconciliation or create a back dated credit memo or remove a default account in QuickBooks online. Those kinds of problems are real, but not the subject of this book and not the“big picture” issues that truly mess up your bookkeeping.

They are easy to get caught up in because that is the problem you are trying to solve in the moment, but they are only really helpful to solve if you have already gotten everything else in order. If your account balances are off by thousands of dollars then your credit memo problem may not be as important an issue as you thought!

Another area where Naive Bayes algorithm is widely used is in multiclass classification

Another Area Where Naive Bayes Algorithm Is Widely Used Is In MultiClass Classification

Naive Bayes

Applications of Naive Bayes

Naive Bayes algorithm is an eager learning algorithm based on Bayes theorem with the assumption that all features are independent given the class label. Naive Bayes algorithm is well suited to text classification as its test time prediction is quick and as a result it can be deployed on a large dataset for inference.

Naive Bayes is usually used in applications where predictions are desired in real time such as fraud detection on credit card transactions. In these applications, a classifier that is capable of performing almost instantaneously is desired. Naive Bayes is also used extensively in text classification, spam filtering and sentiment analysis. In spam filtering, the words of an email or text message serve as the input features to the model, with each word assumed to be independent of others. Naive Bayes usually produces good results when this independent assumption holds true and coupled with its short inference time is sometimes preferred over more complicated classifiers.

Another area where Naive Bayes algorithm is widely used is in multi-class classification. In this domain, multiple classes or categories can be predicted given input features, with probabilities assigned to the predicted classes.

How to Build a Basic Model Using Naive Bayes in Python