Ever had one of those Twilight Zone experiences? You know where something works one minute, but doesn’t the next? It’s like the universe just getting suxed into a black hole? Okay well my experience wasn’t quite that dramatic, but this took over a year to figure out. Symptoms If I was locally connected to a [...]

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In the previous post we saw a simple backup script, that backs up the entire /home/ directory. While this is great, we would have to remember to run this everyday for it to be of any use. Fortunately for us, we can do that very easily with crontab. crontab maintains a chronological (clock order) entry [...]

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Two (2) Rules for Successful Computing: 1. Always have a path back to the way it was, before you messed it up! 2. Always follow Rule #1! This is something I’ve been meaning to post for a long time. How to do simple command line backup and restore operations, using a very simple bash script. [...]

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Hi folks – thought I’d take a moment to update you on a few things. I live here in Tucson, Arizona, which over the last weekend, was the lightning rod for violence. So much so, that President Obama will be here later today. For those not familiar I’ll re-post the article I wrote (from my [...]

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