If at least one machine on your LAN is Mac or PC, you might want to pick up something like the Maxtor OneTouch. The 120GB version is only about $180 these days. This thing has USB2 and firewire, and a single button on the front that you push to fire up Retrospect software to back up a mac/pc.
The nice thing is this button is programmable, so you can just fire off your rsync script to backup your other samba shares or whatever.
Do a weekly backup with a single push of a button, throw the thing in your backpack, and take it to work and leave it there. Bingo. Off-site storage.
- 2 equal partitions on clients - use cygwin's rsync to auto update the passive partition - move folder "os.old" to "os" when rsync complete - round robin boot between the partitions
You are forgetting something very important. If you implement all those Orwellian policies, the very best employees will seek work elsewhere. Sure, your average coder may spend a few less minutes a day on IM with his wife, but the coder who is 100% more productive will be working somewhere else. (Somewhere where management probably has more important things to do.)
That is a foolish (or maybe just ignorant) perspective. Did you know that everyone who holds a credit card pays for fraud through increased interest rate charges, overblown fees, etc. Every business that accepts a credit card transaction pays for fraud as well, through giving up a higher % of each sale to the credit card company.
Just because you aren't held personally responsible for fraud doesn't mean that we all don't pay for fraud.
I'm with you, it is a Good Thing that people aren't responsible for charges they don't make. But that doesn't mean I'm happy with the current state of affairs.
These aren't the scooters you are looking for...
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Last night when I got home from work there were two electric scooters waiting in front of my garage. They had just been delivered by FedEx. I was surprised, because I hadn't ordered any scooters lately (ever) and wasn't expecting any. I drew up a very short list called "Friends of the scooter" who might have sent them as gifts, but alas, no luck after a few quick phone calls. So my hunch was either a)credit card fraud or b)computer glitch from company I had already ordered from.
I called the scooter merchant this morning, and sure enough, someone had used my wife's AmEx card number to order the scooters and ship them to an address just a few miles away. Thankfully, as the nice owner of the scooter co. informed me, they have a policy of only shipping to the billing address and the sweaty-toothed madman didn't get his precious scooters. Ha!
So since the nice owner of the scooter co. shared the IP address of the person who made the order, and being a huge internet nerd, I have already traced the origin (via nslookup) to an AOL user who was logged in and using AOL at 11:53am on 9/7/03. I might just have the means to track this guy down. I'm turning this over to the credit card company immediately, but the "sue everybody" American in me wants to go after this bastard for mental anguish, lost time returning the scooters, making this post, etc., and emotional damage to my 3 year-old daughter who was understandably excited about the scooters (perhaps even as excited as me!).
I set up a socks server on a dedicated linux box I pay $65/mo for (I'm hosting some websites there). I connect to this box via SSH and tunnel port 1080 so I can use all the IMs--AIM, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ. All without The Man being the wiser. (I'm a rogue, re-imaged my work desktop with my own copy of Win2k--I'm one of the few in my office who didn't get the virus today b/c I keep up to date)
Well my wife's co. blocked her AIM and she was mad, so I hooked her up with the same setup. I thought there might be a business here, so I poked around but the people I asked were too afraid of getting fired to try me out even on a free basis. A crappy economy will sure make people jumpy.
I typically get an idea like this, purchase a domain name for $8 from godaddy.com, then move on to something else.
There are some great ideas out there (kozmo.com?) that don't require $100MM of venture capital to get started. Quite the opposite in fact, b/c the business often doesn't support all that damn infrastructure.
I'm looking for a spam filtering solution that will work with my a)desktop client Eudora, b)webmail client, and with a c)Palm client--and maybe d)a cell phone down the road.
SpamBayes seems to do the trick for (a), where I can filter on the client, but how can I accomplish b) c) and d)??
Can you recommend a good webmail client for b)webmail? I played around with Squirrelmail and liked it, but have moved back to POP mail for the most flexible approach with good clients everywhere. That leaves me with Neomail, or some other you recommend...
And how about c)Palm and d)cellphone? The problem with most of the mark-message-with-new-header approach is that you are still downloading the Spam with the Ham and you are getting bandwidth charges for both. I'd like a pop filter that only returns the known good stuff (when I wish).
In the absence of any helpful responses, I will probably hack up pop3proxy.py from SpamBayes to make it do what I'm looking for.
You really should take a look at the free QuickTopic service called
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I also use their free bulletin boards product (check out the "discuss" links at boingboing.net to see in action) and am very pleased with their stuff. Dead simple and quite powerful.
If you find this stuff at all interesting, I urge you to check out the 8 part miniseries Blue Planet - Seas of Life. These originally aired in the US on the Discovery channel (I believe the BBC was the first), but you can still get the DVDs from the merchant of your choice. I'm not sure the 2nd four episodes are on DVD yet.
The Discovery Channel Website doesn't indicate that these will air again anytime in the near future. You will also note that the Discovery Channel's web strategy is severely lacking because there is no way to have them notify you when it is coming on again. Or are they just being obscure because they reap more profits from DVD sales?
But I digress, this series kicks ass. It doesn't focus solely on the deep-sea critters, but rather casts a wide net. If you saw this show and were not completely freaked out by the presence of crazy brine pools at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, you aren't very curious about the world you live on.
I currently connect to IM through 3 different clients: trillian at work, trillian at home (trillian's logging features are great), and a Tungsten T with bluetooth. I'd like to be able to create a single log with all my messages. Anyone know of a free proxy that would do this for me?
IM gets blocked at my office, so I'm tunnelling IM over SSH to a free socks5 server I'm running, but I can't seem to figure out the logging side of things.
I refer to old logs all the time, from where my wife parked the car to what was the URL I sent to my co-worker last week.
Does anyone know which government agency would be responsible for building this service? I currently work as a contractor (perl developer) for the US Courts and would love to get involved with this project from its initial stages.
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If at least one machine on your LAN is Mac or PC, you might want to pick up something like the Maxtor OneTouch. The 120GB version is only about $180 these days. This thing has USB2 and firewire, and a single button on the front that you push to fire up Retrospect software to back up a mac/pc.
The nice thing is this button is programmable, so you can just fire off your rsync script to backup your other samba shares or whatever.
Do a weekly backup with a single push of a button, throw the thing in your backpack, and take it to work and leave it there. Bingo. Off-site storage.
- 2 equal partitions on clients
- use cygwin's rsync to auto update the passive partition
- move folder "os.old" to "os" when rsync complete
- round robin boot between the partitions
this may be a terrible idea, have never tried it
You can set up apps that always go to the tray when minimzed, or alternatively force any app to do it on the fly. It is nice, give it a try.
You are forgetting something very important. If you implement all those Orwellian policies, the very best employees will seek work elsewhere. Sure, your average coder may spend a few less minutes a day on IM with his wife, but the coder who is 100% more productive will be working somewhere else. (Somewhere where management probably has more important things to do.)
That is a foolish (or maybe just ignorant) perspective. Did you know that everyone who holds a credit card pays for fraud through increased interest rate charges, overblown fees, etc. Every business that accepts a credit card transaction pays for fraud as well, through giving up a higher % of each sale to the credit card company. Just because you aren't held personally responsible for fraud doesn't mean that we all don't pay for fraud. I'm with you, it is a Good Thing that people aren't responsible for charges they don't make. But that doesn't mean I'm happy with the current state of affairs.
Last night when I got home from work there were two electric scooters waiting in front of my garage. They had just been delivered by FedEx. I was surprised, because I hadn't ordered any scooters lately (ever) and wasn't expecting any. I drew up a very short list called "Friends of the scooter" who might have sent them as gifts, but alas, no luck after a few quick phone calls. So my hunch was either a)credit card fraud or b)computer glitch from company I had already ordered from.
I called the scooter merchant this morning, and sure enough, someone had used my wife's AmEx card number to order the scooters and ship them to an address just a few miles away. Thankfully, as the nice owner of the scooter co. informed me, they have a policy of only shipping to the billing address and the sweaty-toothed madman didn't get his precious scooters. Ha!
So since the nice owner of the scooter co. shared the IP address of the person who made the order, and being a huge internet nerd, I have already traced the origin (via nslookup) to an AOL user who was logged in and using AOL at 11:53am on 9/7/03. I might just have the means to track this guy down. I'm turning this over to the credit card company immediately, but the "sue everybody" American in me wants to go after this bastard for mental anguish, lost time returning the scooters, making this post, etc., and emotional damage to my 3 year-old daughter who was understandably excited about the scooters (perhaps even as excited as me!).
What do you think?
Story repeated at my blog
I set up a socks server on a dedicated linux box I pay $65/mo for (I'm hosting some websites there). I connect to this box via SSH and tunnel port 1080 so I can use all the IMs--AIM, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ. All without The Man being the wiser. (I'm a rogue, re-imaged my work desktop with my own copy of Win2k--I'm one of the few in my office who didn't get the virus today b/c I keep up to date)
Well my wife's co. blocked her AIM and she was mad, so I hooked her up with the same setup. I thought there might be a business here, so I poked around but the people I asked were too afraid of getting fired to try me out even on a free basis. A crappy economy will sure make people jumpy.
I typically get an idea like this, purchase a domain name for $8 from godaddy.com, then move on to something else.
There are some great ideas out there (kozmo.com?) that don't require $100MM of venture capital to get started. Quite the opposite in fact, b/c the business often doesn't support all that damn infrastructure.
I'm looking for a spam filtering solution that will work with my a)desktop client Eudora, b)webmail client, and with a c)Palm client--and maybe d)a cell phone down the road.
SpamBayes seems to do the trick for (a), where I can filter on the client, but how can I accomplish b) c) and d)??
Can you recommend a good webmail client for b)webmail? I played around with Squirrelmail and liked it, but have moved back to POP mail for the most flexible approach with good clients everywhere. That leaves me with Neomail, or some other you recommend...
And how about c)Palm and d)cellphone? The problem with most of the mark-message-with-new-header approach is that you are still downloading the Spam with the Ham and you are getting bandwidth charges for both. I'd like a pop filter that only returns the known good stuff (when I wish).
In the absence of any helpful responses, I will probably hack up pop3proxy.py from SpamBayes to make it do what I'm looking for.
Thanks in advance.
I also use their free bulletin boards product (check out the "discuss" links at boingboing.net to see in action) and am very pleased with their stuff. Dead simple and quite powerful.
The Discovery Channel Website doesn't indicate that these will air again anytime in the near future. You will also note that the Discovery Channel's web strategy is severely lacking because there is no way to have them notify you when it is coming on again. Or are they just being obscure because they reap more profits from DVD sales?
But I digress, this series kicks ass. It doesn't focus solely on the deep-sea critters, but rather casts a wide net. If you saw this show and were not completely freaked out by the presence of crazy brine pools at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, you aren't very curious about the world you live on.
ding! ding! ding! post of the day! thoughtful AND hilarious. I didn't have mod points so I did what I could on my blog
this is from Monty Python, if you were wondering
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Google led me here.
IM gets blocked at my office, so I'm tunnelling IM over SSH to a free socks5 server I'm running, but I can't seem to figure out the logging side of things.
I refer to old logs all the time, from where my wife parked the car to what was the URL I sent to my co-worker last week.
I've heard of people doing this with macs (via some program called clicker and I'd love to do the same for my machine at work.
didn't Kirk use a sneaky trick like this to get Khan in Star Trek II?
"Our shields are going down!"
Kirk: "Fire."
Does anyone know which government agency would be responsible for building this service? I currently work as a contractor (perl developer) for the US Courts and would love to get involved with this project from its initial stages.