From the monthly archives:

October 2007

How to watch network interface bandwidth usage on FreeBSD

by Benson Wong

Use this command: systat -ifstat 1 It will show something like this: Interface Traffic Peak Total lo0 in 0.000 KB/s 0.000 KB/s 7.635 KB out 0.000 KB/s 0.000 KB/s 7.635 KB bge0 in 2.090 MB/s 3.439 MB/s 2.263 GB out 36.603 KB/s 173.008 KB/s 343.683 MB fxp0 in 2.503 KB/s 2.430 MB/s 1.137 GB out [...]

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Anthony Robbins at TED

by Benson Wong

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 [...]

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Crossfit Vancouver Article

by Benson Wong

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]

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What Six Months of Crossfit Does To Your Body

by Benson Wong

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 [...]

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How To Restore Files without .mac Backup

by Benson Wong

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 [...]

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