Today I happened across a couple of packages to test drive in the near future for photo backup, though neither are specifically tailored for said purpose: backupninja – lightweight, extensible meta-backup system Backupninja lets you drop simple config files in /etc/backup.d to coordinate system backups. Backupninja is a master of many arts, including incremental remote [...]
While I’ve never been one to write top n things posts, there are three PDF tools I use routinely that are pretty awesome. The most generally applicable is PDF Creator, which lets you print to PDF on any Windows system. It uses the magic of Open Source ™ internally, essentially ghostscript, to make it happen. [...]
I stumbled upon this hilarity from the PostgreSQL docs. The first century starts at 0001-01-01 00:00:00 AD, although they did not know it at the time. This definition applies to all Gregorian calendar countries. There is no century number 0, you go from -1 century to 1 century. If you disagree with this, please write [...]
After fighting with the latest version of Kate’s strange way of allowing you to configure the usage of tabs rather than spaces, I decided to give a Geany a try. Normally I steer clear of GTK applications simply because I’ve used so many poorly written ones. Fortunately, Geany does not fall into that category. It’s [...]
Finally created a Delicious account. My open tabs now exceed practicality. I can’t work through enough projects simultaneously to hold my active tabs under 50. It’s crazy. Posting to Delicious, I am hopeful, will allow me to immediately dump resources I am not actively using in favor of fewer open tabs. Ultimately, I’d like to [...]
Steve Keen has a must read article, Steve Keen’s DebtWatch No 31 February 2009: “The Roving Cavaliers of Credit”, that turns the accepted relationship of money supply and the Fed on its head. Eugene Fama speaks of government recapitalization of banks in Government Equity Capital for Financial Firms.
I can’t believe Farhad Manjoo wrote an entire article comparing every browser but Opera. He even comments on how much he loves the Firefox mouse gestures plugin, a feature that Opera pioneered. What a shame! I use Tab Mix Plus in conjunction with Foxmarks, which allows me to share Firefox bookmarks across computers. I can [...]
Several must read articles just from the past couple days. No Return to Normal Why the economic crisis, and its solution, are bigger than you think. James K. Galbraith. The Big Takeover. The global economic crisis isn’t about money – it’s about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution. [...]
Many different solutions exist. JSLoad is a Javascript file loader that [they] wrote for Instructables. jspkg is a package loader for Javascript, based on pluggable loaders for locating and loading scripts into a client-side Javascript application. Orphaned? The YUI Loader Utility is a client-side JavaScript component that allows you to load specific YUI components and [...]
Lately I have come across stuff that owns Windows sytems via Firefox in some fashion. AVG was alone has been able to clean these systems up. I have found some tools that are effective. Dr Web CureIt is the best AV package I’ve found thus far. It was able to heal W32 Virut. Neither AVG [...]