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Backing up with tar or rsync? [Freedompenguin]
There’s a decision to make when you want to write your scripts when it’s time to back things up: use tar or rsync?
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Great Blue Heron, Padilla Bay
These guys are my favorite subject. Pentax K10D, 210mm F4 1/600 ISO 100 handheld; gimp: desaturated layer for constrast, color layer auto enhancement.
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Making Backups of What’s Recent
You probably don’t need to backup your whole hard drive every day. Just back up what you changed recently.
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Making a Non-Spamming Alert [FreedomPenguin]
I’ve sent a lot of pager alerts to myself over the years. Here is a technique you can use that could help you reduce duplicate notifications.
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TiSA could be a trade deal that wrecks local economies
… governments may not be able to regulate staff to patient ratios in hospitals, or ban fracking, or tighten safety ntrols on airlines, or refuse accreditation to schools and universities. Foreign corporations must receive the same “national treatment” as domestic ones, and could argue that such regulations violate their ability to provide the service. Here…
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Adding a bicycle bell
The bike bell I had was way to narrow for the pipe on my bike. So luckily I had a small scrap of pipe that I sanded down and pressed into hole of the larger pipe. This was my Hack Your World moment. I drilled a hole in the handle of the furniture clamp and…
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Breazeale field, Padilla Bay 2016-01-03
I “chased” that heron down the road for a while and it finally let me get about 100 ft away. 300mm lens, hand held. Moo! Highland cattle at the farm behind Breazeale.
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