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I always forget how to do this, so I have to look it up each time. This will make it easier the next time. It is so simple, just I always forget. First, I need to generate my ssh pub and private keys on the host server: ssh-keygen Second, I need to copy the pub …

Today I just had the terrible experience of having a database lose data, need to restore, only to not have a recent backup. If you haven’t had this experience before, please, take this serious. My wife was home for lunch as it happened, and she watched as the blood drained from my face. It only …

I’m not sure exactly what this is, but its strange. I wanted to add the whitehouse YouTube channel’s RSS feed to my Google Reader. I might not have voted for Obama, but I think he is using new technologies to communicate with people in a very good way. I’m excited for the precedence that he …

Today I opened my email and found a story about how Sarah Palin, the Republican VP Nominee, had her email account hacked. Here are some quotes: On the heels of media reports that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was using a private Yahoo e-mail account (gov.palin@yahoo.com) to conduct Alaska state business, hackers have broken …

AVG, a popular anti-virus that I use, has a good free version. I guess it has become popular enough that I found a avgsafe.dll on a computer using HijackThis. The reason it suck out is that they didn’t have AVG installed. Was easy to remove and the computer was good to go.

The other day I was talking with my cousin and she asked how I liked my MacBook Pro. She told me all the cool things she had heard. A friend of hers said that with a Mac you don’t ever need to buy anything like “Norton” cause Macs don’t get viruses. She asked me if …