There’s been a lot of buzz lately (no google pun intended) about “Google Drive” and what it’s launch means for DropBox and other competitors in the online storage market. For me the news had an unexpected twist. I found myself participating in the discussion on Google + & Twitter about the terms of service of
Many people have come to love using TaskPaper on their Mac for their go to high speed task and project management tool for a number of reasons; if not for “everything” then at least for certain projects. Many of “those” people have also added some of the available scripts in the wiki over at Hog
A few weeks ago much to my surprise, when I got home from work there was an unexpected package on my door step. I hadn’t ordered anything I could recall and thought maybe it was something my wife had ordered. As I started to open the box I thought, “what if this is a gift,
…So I was collaborating with one of our developers today. He was working on a web app that displays some pdf data from the web server. His goal was to display another set of data from a share on a windows server. The natural reaction of course was to mount the share and symlink to
Today I wanted to share some thoughts on systems & network administration and infrastructure in general. Almost all IT / IS geeks have seen this shirt somewhere => go away or i’ll…, and find it funny or in some instances realistic. What I find astounding is that I’ve heard at least one story in passing of
Subversion is one of many great tools to help keep code changes organized, especially across teams working on the same code base. This short guide will walk you through the following steps: – installing a subversion (svn) server on Ubuntu Server Edition 10.04 – creating a base directory for your svn repositories and setting the
Problem: You have data to copy from one location to another on your linux/unix box, but you don’t want to copy absolutely everything. You also don’t want to copy each file that you DO want one at a time as that would take forever! Solution: rsync to the rescue! Step One: Let’s look at and
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