Here's an easily modifiable script that uses hard links and rsync. I used this as our office's starting point and now have a system that:
creates a local snapshot every night and stores it on a separate drive;
archives a copy from the night before for only the storage cost of the changes;
writes off to an external drive every weekend.
The nightly back-ups mainly account for users accidentally deleting files or saving changes they wish they hadn't rather than hardware failure. Since it's all just stored as a copy, I can mount it over the network if necessary or archive the the snapshot to external media anytime I want. It doesn't require any downtime to back-up or restore on our setup, but if you were dealing with some more complex services you might need to make som allowances.
there is a gaim/evolution integration plug-in available. it's not amazing at the moment, but they certainly seem to be moving in the direction you want.
unreal tournament put an icon on my desktop.
i'm looking at automatically installed menu entries for several applications right now: xine, evolution, openoffice. the "run application..." even searches out what i have installed. if i want to add one myself, i just add a launcher - which involves the mildly complicated task of typing the right program name.
i don't need to know where it is... it's in my $PATH.
Don't get a public frig, unless you have someone assigned to clean it. It'd be better to just get those individual desk frigs; they don't hold much, but at least everyone would be responsible for their own.
. . . um, i don't even know where to begin with this one. are you speaking from experience here? did this previous job have hot secretaries? if so, are they hiring?
i don't have mod points at the moment, so i thought i'd make a comment instead. the above should be drilled into web designers before they're even allowed to touch a computer. the whole point of mark-up languages like html (used with css) is to seperate content and presentation. designing to a pixel-based layout it just lazy and almost always creates an inaccessible site. even if you've got some crazy graphical layout that you want to use, do it in css and your users can select the stylesheet they want to see.
unless each of the source-based machines has a different configuration, surely you should be compiling on one and then using the resulting binaries on the others? even if they were all different, you could still cross-compile it all on one machine. sure, there may be a two-hour delay before you get your binaries but it's not stopping you or the other machines from doing something productive.
you might be interested in the article - "Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards". since slashcode is open source, someone could get together the article's author and actually submit a patch...
One of the reasons I log in to slashdot is that it allows me to set preferences for displaying comments. One of these options removes the poster's.sig from the comment. In keeping with other bits of "netiquette" (such as not flaming nor typing all in caps), please keep your site's advertisement in the.sig, where it belongs.
i wish more companies would post things like this. the thing that really got to me while applying for jobs was - there is no ideal way to write a covering letter and resume. every single time, i had to guess what the reader of my application was going to value... admittedly, i just had several different cvs and boilerplate letters which i mixed and matched. however, if people told you what they were really looking for it would spare everyone a great deal of effort.
it's like when you finally see your own credit record and find that all the esoteric stuff people tell you about get a loan and pay it back immediately, have multiple bank accounts, get a false identity... it's all crap.
ok... i haven't played the game, or in fact read anything about it but it seems clear that becoming a jedi is a pretty big goal for people.
however, tell me something: was han solo a jedi?
NO, of course he wasn't. who wants to wander round the universe in a bathrobe and a beard anyway. give me the "millenium falcon" and trousers with a nifty stripe or two down the side, that's a real goal.
i think the game that really made me appreciate its soundtrack was "quake" with music entirely by "trent reznor" (well known for being "nine inch nails"). the best thing about it, was being able to take out of of your computer and play the audio tracks on any cd-player. old playstation games sometimes did this, and the modern equivalent is finding all the game tracks are stored as mp3s.
the article is a bit whingy and i think misses the point that it is a case of "right tool for the right job". sometimes existing tracks work better, sometimes something entirely new is what's needed. that's what makes it art.
as ignorance of the law is no defence, i am going to e-mail all my contacts at once and tell them about this. i also encourage all of you to mail everyone in your address book and tell them. maybe, even do a good deed and e-mail some people you never have before to spread this excellent news.
a small, but possibly signifigant point. british people are subjects, rather than citizens.
so... from merriam-webster
citizen - 1 : one that is placed under authority or control: as a : VASSAL b (1) : one subject to a monarch and governed by the monarch's law (2) : one who lives in the territory of, enjoys the protection of, and owes allegiance to a sovereign power or state
subject - 1 : an inhabitant of a city or town; especially : one entitled to the rights and privileges of a freeman
2 a : a member of a state b : a native or naturalized person who owes allegiance to a government and is entitled to protection from it
and to finish: "citizen" is preferred for one owing allegiance to a state in which sovereign power is retained by the people and sharing in the political rights of those people (the rights of a free citizen). "subject" implies allegiance to a personal sovereign such as a monarch (the king's subjects).
i would think that there is a higher correlation between people who generally use computers (rather than just gamers) and people with obsessive personalities. it's one of the standard "geek" stereotypes: late night coding sessions, long hours and little human contact.
however, when you do this in a work environment, people are hardly going to complain... you look like a dedicated employee. playing a game however, it easy to get into but you're not producing anything so it easier to view it as an addiction.
perhaps more importantly though, who cares? sure, if it's children then there is an issue as they still need guidance about what can be harmful. however, for an adult there is a point where you just have to take responsibility for yourself and stop whinging.
maybe i should extend my tin-foil hat to a tin-foil facemask and a pair of shiny gloves... that way they'll never recognise me!
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just to illustrate the inaccuracy point, i had a friend going to work for shell, for which a drug test was needed. this guy was the most clean-living person i knew, he didn't even drink. even so, his test came back positive for opium use.
why? due to eating buns with poppy seeds on top.
he's now just graduated from cambridge, and i don't think he is looking for employment with shell.
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Here's an easily modifiable script that uses hard links and rsync. I used this as our office's starting point and now have a system that:
The nightly back-ups mainly account for users accidentally deleting files or saving changes they wish they hadn't rather than hardware failure. Since it's all just stored as a copy, I can mount it over the network if necessary or archive the the snapshot to external media anytime I want. It doesn't require any downtime to back-up or restore on our setup, but if you were dealing with some more complex services you might need to make som allowances.
there is a gaim/evolution integration plug-in available. it's not amazing at the moment, but they certainly seem to be moving in the direction you want.
i spend seven and a half hours a day reading slashdot... though, officially i call it "being in the office".
unreal tournament put an icon on my desktop. i'm looking at automatically installed menu entries for several applications right now: xine, evolution, openoffice. the "run application..." even searches out what i have installed. if i want to add one myself, i just add a launcher - which involves the mildly complicated task of typing the right program name.
i don't need to know where it is... it's in my $PATH.
Don't get a public frig, unless you have someone assigned to clean it. It'd be better to just get those individual desk frigs; they don't hold much, but at least everyone would be responsible for their own.
. . . um, i don't even know where to begin with this one. are you speaking from experience here? did this previous job have hot secretaries? if so, are they hiring?
i don't have mod points at the moment, so i thought i'd make a comment instead. the above should be drilled into web designers before they're even allowed to touch a computer. the whole point of mark-up languages like html (used with css) is to seperate content and presentation. designing to a pixel-based layout it just lazy and almost always creates an inaccessible site. even if you've got some crazy graphical layout that you want to use, do it in css and your users can select the stylesheet they want to see.
out of interest, does he also only use public internet terminals, have all his orders shipped to a holding address and use false details online?
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unless each of the source-based machines has a different configuration, surely you should be compiling on one and then using the resulting binaries on the others? even if they were all different, you could still cross-compile it all on one machine. sure, there may be a two-hour delay before you get your binaries but it's not stopping you or the other machines from doing something productive.
you might be interested in the article - "Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards". since slashcode is open source, someone could get together the article's author and actually submit a patch...
One of the reasons I log in to slashdot is that it allows me to set preferences for displaying comments. One of these options removes the poster's .sig from the comment. In keeping with other bits of "netiquette" (such as not flaming nor typing all in caps), please keep your site's advertisement in the .sig, where it belongs.
"Are we close to loosing our anonymity online in Canada?"
maybe we should let a spell-checker loose first?
i wish more companies would post things like this. the thing that really got to me while applying for jobs was - there is no ideal way to write a covering letter and resume. every single time, i had to guess what the reader of my application was going to value... admittedly, i just had several different cvs and boilerplate letters which i mixed and matched. however, if people told you what they were really looking for it would spare everyone a great deal of effort.
it's like when you finally see your own credit record and find that all the esoteric stuff people tell you about get a loan and pay it back immediately, have multiple bank accounts, get a false identity... it's all crap.
bizarre... duplicate article gets a duplicate comment.
ok... i haven't played the game, or in fact read anything about it but it seems clear that becoming a jedi is a pretty big goal for people.
however, tell me something: was han solo a jedi?
NO, of course he wasn't. who wants to wander round the universe in a bathrobe and a beard anyway. give me the "millenium falcon" and trousers with a nifty stripe or two down the side, that's a real goal.
i hate to say it, but reznor is no longer involved in the doom3 soundtrack. if you can prove me wrong, please do.
i think the game that really made me appreciate its soundtrack was "quake" with music entirely by "trent reznor" (well known for being "nine inch nails"). the best thing about it, was being able to take out of of your computer and play the audio tracks on any cd-player. old playstation games sometimes did this, and the modern equivalent is finding all the game tracks are stored as mp3s.
the article is a bit whingy and i think misses the point that it is a case of "right tool for the right job". sometimes existing tracks work better, sometimes something entirely new is what's needed. that's what makes it art.
as ignorance of the law is no defence, i am going to e-mail all my contacts at once and tell them about this. i also encourage all of you to mail everyone in your address book and tell them. maybe, even do a good deed and e-mail some people you never have before to spread this excellent news.
the more the merrier!
i really hope you have some evidence to back that up.
of course i purposefully put them the wrong way round, otherwise i would look like a total fool...
a small, but possibly signifigant point. british people are subjects, rather than citizens.
so... from merriam-webster
citizen - 1 : one that is placed under authority or control: as a : VASSAL b (1) : one subject to a monarch and governed by the monarch's law (2) : one who lives in the territory of, enjoys the protection of, and owes allegiance to a sovereign power or state
subject - 1 : an inhabitant of a city or town; especially : one entitled to the rights and privileges of a freeman 2 a : a member of a state b : a native or naturalized person who owes allegiance to a government and is entitled to protection from it
and to finish: "citizen" is preferred for one owing allegiance to a state in which sovereign power is retained by the people and sharing in the political rights of those people (the rights of a free citizen). "subject" implies allegiance to a personal sovereign such as a monarch (the king's subjects).
i would think that there is a higher correlation between people who generally use computers (rather than just gamers) and people with obsessive personalities. it's one of the standard "geek" stereotypes: late night coding sessions, long hours and little human contact.
however, when you do this in a work environment, people are hardly going to complain... you look like a dedicated employee. playing a game however, it easy to get into but you're not producing anything so it easier to view it as an addiction.
perhaps more importantly though, who cares? sure, if it's children then there is an issue as they still need guidance about what can be harmful. however, for an adult there is a point where you just have to take responsibility for yourself and stop whinging.
maybe i should extend my tin-foil hat to a tin-foil facemask and a pair of shiny gloves... that way they'll never recognise me!
just to illustrate the inaccuracy point, i had a friend going to work for shell, for which a drug test was needed. this guy was the most clean-living person i knew, he didn't even drink. even so, his test came back positive for opium use.
why? due to eating buns with poppy seeds on top.
he's now just graduated from cambridge, and i don't think he is looking for employment with shell.
if you'd like to see how sensible people handle this sort of thing, check out the two gentoo's:
http://www.obsession.se/gentoo/
http://www.gentoo.org/
looks like so many problems would be solved if people just had some better manners.