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Entries from June 2006

Free remote backup: passwordless SSH + Rsync

June 27th, 2006 · 1 Comment

If you’ve always wanted to backup your files to a remote server, but never really knew how – here’s a quick and easy way to do it:
1. Create a passwordless SSH setup
Login into your account on your [Linux, Unix, BSD, OS X] system. Type in
ssh-keygen -t dsa
Hit Enter three times.
This will create a .ssh [...]

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Tags: Life

Gooooooooaaaaaal!!!

June 22nd, 2006 · No Comments

World Cup ’06 – FINAL: Ghana 2 – USA 1
Go Ghana! You rock! Africa is in the final 16!

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Tags: Life

I call bullshit on the OED

June 6th, 2006 · 2 Comments

So there I was, casually glancing through a list of some hip’n’tasty neologisms breaking into the charts on Ask Oxford when I came across something absolutely and utterly ridiculous. Tell me if you spot anything wrong with this sentence:
Bluesnarfing: the illicit accessing of data from an electronic device such as a mobile phone, PDA, or [...]

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Tags: Language · Life

Speaking at Where 2.0, hanging at Hyperlinked Society.

June 5th, 2006 · No Comments

Giant 2005/6 conference recap coming soon. In the meantime – I’m speaking at O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 Conference in San Francisco next week. I’m really excited about this conference – I was so bummed I had to miss it last year due to visa issue. I’m also speaking right at the tail-end of a trifecta of [...]

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Tags: Life · Movement