LOL
Conspiracy Theory 101: Arms manufacturers started the World Wars to make money. I almost died laughing when my history teacher started talking about that conspiracy theory.
Monthly Archive for October, 2005
I replaced SquirrelMail with RoundCube Webmail today. Despite the fact that it’s currently in alpha (0.1 is the current release) and I’m using CVS builds, I think it’s probably the best free webmail client out there. Parts of the interface are AJAX’d, which makes for a pleasant user experience. It’s got an amazing interface, obviously inspired by Aqua (They’ve got a “Made On Mac” button on their webpage - usually a good sign). It’s a little rough around the edges, most notably in the setup area- but once you’ve got it up and running, it’s a great experience.
Update: My friend Paul Stamatiou has posted a HOWTO for setting up RoundCube here.
I do believe that rsync is the greatest command line application ever, well… maybe next to ssh. I’m no longer spending half an hour waiting for my PowerBook to get every file in my music folder from my G5 so that I have all of my music, instead rsync does an incremental update - it only copies new and changed files. It’s incredibly easy to do as well, I just run this command on my G5 (the master copy/source):
rsync -a ~/Music/ justin@laptop.bellmor.com:~/Music/
Rsync is also particularly useful for doing incremental backups. I use rsync to maintain a backup of my very-expensive-to-replace music collection on the server. Since I have to backup incrementally (otherwise I’d spend two days waiting for the backup to complete), rsync is the only way to go. The only changes I made from syncing my music to my PowerBook were adding two parameters, --delete and --exclude='*.m4v'. --delete will delete anything on the destination that’s not on the source (so if I delete a song from my library on my G5, it’ll delete the song on the server). --exclude='*.m4v' makes sure I don’t back up those massive movies you can get from iTunes. When you combine rsync with crontab and public key authentication, you get completely invisible and automatic backups. Here’s what my rsync command in my crontab looks like:
30 18 * * * rsync -a --delete --exclude='*.m4v' ~/Music/ backup@bellmor.com:/home/backup/Music/ > /dev/null 2>&1
Bombs in the East Campus quad, right next to where I used to live (Glenn Hall)! Disturbing.
Update: The idiot prankster got caught (Turned himself in).
Internet Brownout
Level 3, a backbone for internet traffic, cut off communication with a rival over issues with peering. Some people can’t access parts of the internet as a result. Is Level 3 engaged in a terrorist action by cutting off access to a key element of this nation’s economy? Let’s just label them enemy combatants and send them to Guantanamo before the humane treatment law goes into effect. I’ve been affected by this- I couldn’t access a particular website for an updated Mint plugin and had to SSH into my server to use lynx to download the update, which I then had to SFTP download to my computer. This is like shutting off the power, it’s totally irresponsible and this can’t be allowed to happen again. This also underscores how easy it would be for a real terrorist to strike something so vastly important us.
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