Archive: October, 2006

World’s worst use of a jpeg.

Posted on 10/12/06 58 Comments

NOTE: This was the top link on reddit.com for awhile A jpeg is good for a lot of things, but a live data feed is not one of them. In fact it might be violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Seattle Fire Department has been hosting a live html feed of the latest [...]

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How I automated my backups to Amazon S3 using s3sync.

Posted on 10/09/06 104 Comments

UPDATE: See my newer article for the way I currently backup to Amazon S3. Jeremy Zawodny has an excellent article/discussion about the different tools currently available to take advantage of Amazon simple storage service (S3). After testing many tools available for S3 currently, I decided to use the ruby program s3sync to backup my data [...]

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Cheap, reliable, secure off-site storage for backup…

Posted on 10/02/06 6 Comments

There has been numerous posts for online backup solutions (for good reason), but I haven’t found the best solution for me yet.What I want: cheap reliable off-site backups for my home Linux (Ubuntu Server Edition) file server. O.k. I am a classic digital packrat. My actual garage is very clean and organized, but my digital [...]

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