Test by email
Saturday, August 9th, 2008Sorting out how to get email to Wordpress to not post a new email as
pending but actually publish. This is test 3. Cron is working fine.
Wordpress is getting the email fine. But it is not publishing.
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Backup your Mac
Saturday, February 16th, 2008I've always been pretty good at backing my data up. But I admit to being irregular in my manual backup process which basically was monthly, or so, backups to CD. But just before Christmas I had a hard drive failure and lost a couple of weeks of changes. Nothing serious but a nusance none the less.
A backup should be regular, easy and distributed.
So I've been exploring the many other options around. These are all related to the Macintosh. I'll be exploring the Windows world in the next couple of months but some of these options are cross-platform compatible.
Apple's new Macintosh OS, Leopard, includes Time Machine which is perhaps the easiest backup tool you will find. Just buy an external hard drive about the size of or larger than your computer's hard drive. When you plug the drive in then you are prompted with a question as to weather you want to use that drive as a Time Machine backup? Say yes! Time machine creates it's own folder on the drive, so the drive can be used for other purposes. Time Machine does the rest!
This is great! And it's a big improvement over what many of us do but there is one problem. It does not solve the problem of off-site backup. If you have a fire then yo might lose it all anyway.
If you have not upgraded to Leopard yet then check out Super Duper. I am using Super Duper to backup a bootable image of my MacBook. Probably won't update this as often but a bootable copy gets me back in action quickly. Super Duper can be used for free but the small fee for the added utility of updates is well worth it.
To get that offsite backup, I've tried out two options. Jungle Disk is software that accesses your own Amazon S3 account. Running your own S3 account increases the geek-factor of this option but is not too hard. Mozy runs automatically as well. Both backup your changes whenever you have an Internet access.
The big thing about both is the initial backup. It took a dozen hours or so to get the base backup complete. But updates go unnoticed.
So my backup routine now goes liek this:
- At work I plug into a harddrive with Time Macine.
- At home I maintain a Super Duper image.
- Jungle Disk runs where ever I am.
Next up is my wife's WIndows desktop. I'll be exploring a similar routine. Some software to sync up to an external hard drive and Jungle Disk for offsite. But I will report those results when I find time to work it all out.
"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" trailer
Thursday, February 14th, 2008Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is coming to theaters on May 22, 2008. Can't wait!
