Boldly goes where no coder has gone before... and other ramblings :)
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There are two kinds of people, those who backup regularly, and those that never had a hard drive fail. I love the above quote. It is so true and I believe everyone should evaluate how much their data (emails, documents, files) is worth to them and, based on that value, create a backup strategy that suits them. I know for sure that if I ever lost the pictures and videos of my family I would be devastated since those are irreplaceable.
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I will start this post once again with the words of a wise man: There are two kinds of people, those who backup regularly, and those that never had a hard drive fail So the moral of the story here is backup often. If something is to happen, the impact on your operations will be [...]
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There are times that I want to set up a secure communication with the server I am working on. This might be because I want to run phpMyAdmin over SSL (I do not like unencrypted communications over the Internet), install a certificate for an eShop for a client or just for my personal use. The [...]
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The last few years I have been using Quicken to manage the home bank accounts and spending. My wife never had any problems with me doing so and it helps us manage our cash flow better. Of course like every couple we buy things that we need and always provision a small amount of money [...]
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Recently I have started setting up a cluster of 7 Gentoo boxes for a project I am working on. The problem with boxes coming right out of the setup process of a hosting company is that they do not contain the packages that you need. Therefore you need to setup your USE flags and emerge [...]
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Continuing from Part 2. I had to shut the computer down because I had a train to catch. However booting up again the computer on the train and trying to enter the chroot environment produced some errors. It might very well be the fact that I do not have an Internet connection (at least a [...]
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Continuing from Part 1. The download took quite a while, so I thought it might be a good idea to split this post in parts, so as to ensure good readability. I need to create some symlinks. Also a good place to add my repository is /usr/local hence the commands for Chromium OS and Chromium [...]
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A lot of hype has been generated on the Internet a few months back regarding Google’s announcement that they are building a new operating system. The announcement was met with skepticism but also enthusiasm/anticipation by a lot of people who are puzzled as to what direction Google is taking and where are they looking themselves [...]
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This is my effort to install Gentoo Linux on my Acer Ferrari LMi 3000. The first thing I did was to start ssh. The live CD of Gentoo had already identified my network card which is based on the via-rhine module. # /etc/init.d/sshd start The key is generated and of course I needed to change [...]
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Nowadays we are all about gadgets. My new printer, my new digital camera, my ability to connect my phone with my PC etc. As a consumer society we tend to buy stuff that we do not need or hardly ever use. I of course am no exception to this rule. I have tons of junk [...]
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