The rsync man page boggles my mind in similar ways to the rrdtool man page. So let’s say you want to use rsync to pull files from location A/sender to a specific location B/receiver and then clean up location A/sender. See the files are on location B/receiver after the sync, so there’s no sense in [...]
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The Year in Lists
Top Five Albums of 2008 1. The Sea and Cake – Car Alarm 2. The Constantines – Kensington Heights 3. The Hold Steady – Stay Positive 4. Sigur Ros – Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust 5. Deerhunter – Microcastle Top Five Films of 2008 (note: I have yet to see any of the [...]
The Pains of a New Machine
So L. surprised (and graced) me with a new machine for Christmas. She got me a new 2.4 GHz Macbook, that’s truly the bees knees. And yet, what a pain in the butt. How, you ask? Let me explain. As a hardcore nerd, I’m fairly set in my ways (read: downright anal) when it comes [...]
There Goes the Neighborhood
I’m pretty pleased to report that I went 2 for 2 on talk proposals for PyCon 2009. The panel I submitted and the talk I submitted were both accepted for the annual Python Conference. Panel: Functional Testing Tools The purpose of this panel is to allow the maintainers to introduce (or reintroduce) their functional testing [...]