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Beep! Beep! Beep! Backing Up!

People, really… A public service announcement.

Make some backups!

My own backup strategy consists largely of something like this: 

ditto -V -rsrcFork /Users/pete /Volumes/Backup/Users/pete

Which, besides making a whole bunch of text appear on the screen, backs up your home directory, saving the resource fork, just in case!

That /Volumes/Backup is actually a drive on another machine, so now we’ve got a copy. Well, a few hours later we have a copy…

(See Also: man ditto)

(Non-Mac OS X users, you’re on your own here!)

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Marc C. and Marqui

Marc Canter has this idea, that bloggers (those who write on the web) should/could get paid just for writing about certain companies. I’m all for it. Heck, I’ll mention stuff for money, bring it on! (Waiting…)

There is a demo at the Marqui site starring some Jetson-lookalikes that explain what Marqui is about. In watching it, I couldn’t help but feel that Marqui is attempting to bridge what is commonly called “old media” with “new media” or maybe “big co” with “backchannel” or… no wait, I know… “lumbering media” with “agile media” – yeah that’s it!

Well, it’s an interesting experiment. I think it could work. I’ll continue to monitor the situation on my Apple PowerMac computer at the end of each day after I kick off my Converse All Stars and relax with a nice cool Sprecher’s Root Beer.

(Disclaimer: I don’t know what I’m talking about!)

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Personal Wiki

About two months ago I started a wiki. No, not here, on red, the Linux box in my basement. The goal was to try to replace the ~/Notes dir on my Mac with something I could easily get to (I always have a browser running) and something that would allow for easy linking and searching. I know a directory full of text files is the unix way, but I wanted something different.

I’ve been using wiki’s for a long time, but never really set up a “Personal Wiki” just for me before.

So far it’s been a huge success with all of it’s users (me) in that I’ve added over 50 pages in two months. sure there was an initial surge in page creation, but it seems that I add new pages at least every few days, and make edits almost daily. It’s a lot of personal stuff, which people would find even less interesting that what I am writing now. (If you can believe that.)

Now as for the directory full of text files, I think wget -r mixed in with some perl and cron on my desktop machine might actually solve that issue…

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AFP, SSH, Something Like That

I was trying to get afp running over ssh, which I did by the way (of course I try to make everything run over ssh) and I realized that months back I actually did get Netatalk running on brew, my Red Hat 7 box. So I figured I should check red, my Fedora box, and it looked like I started but never finished the config. 5 minutes later I had it all done. At least I think. It’s behind a firewall so I have not tested it yet. I would have, if the Linksys router web-based config interface worked properly in lynx. I mean, some of it does, just not the port forwarding part, which sucks if, you know, you are at a remote location and want to forward a port, remotely, or something.

(This post fills my “geek speak” quotient for the day, I am now free to talk about cats.)

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Update for December 2004

November had two issues, me working on way too many projects, and thusly taking up way too much of my time, and a bit of that blockage mr. orchard speaks of, wherein you wonder if what you are writing has any worth at all…

I learned recently that “blogs” are for “guys wasting time on the internet writing about stuff” which I suppose is at least better than wasting time playing video games, but I’ll leave that up to you to decide.

As for the dare I say “writer’s block” thing, well, we’ve been at this since 1997, so stopping isn’t really an option. I suppose it is, if I were to get both of my hands chopped off, well… then I could get a monkey and teach it to upload podcasts of me rambling about something…

Anyway, on to the new stuff, which you already read if you do the reverse-chronological thing in reading this, which you might in a browser, but since almost all traffic to this site is via aggregators, that is doubtful. Nonetheless, enjoy!