The Random Musings

Linux Journal article talks about setting up a home terrabyte backup server. More importantly it has a shell script to rsync to a backup server on a 7 day cycle . . . Just what I need for my work machine.

How-to on getting Ruby installed on PowWeb.com
http://check-these.info/tools/rubysetup_cgi.txt

So, after yesterday’s conversations I felt inspired enough that for 45 minutes I took some time to investigate the first tutorial, Rolling with Ruby on Rails, from the link I sent out (Top 12 Ruby on Rails Tutorials).
The first thing that I had forgotten about was the RubyGems, something that is part of the Ruby [...]

Easy Backup and Restore | Linux Journal
An article I found that I need to refer back to, to help me in my quest to start backing up my home machine on a regular basis.

technorati tags: backup, archive, linux, howto

A pretty complete review of the Flock browser. Talks about its shortcomings as well as its plus sides, mostly to users who keep Weblogs, Flickr collections, or del.icio.us bookmarks.
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I discovered a review of Flock from the digg site.? So, I had to try it after discovering it provided all the facilities that I have been immersing myself with.? I decided to try the blogging facilites, which as the review indicated, is a bit base in features, but convenient.
I want to look at the [...]

Last weekend, Saturday November 12th was the final function for my U-7 soccer team called Black Force. It was an educational season, more for me than for my team of 10 eager kids.
I would like to say that I taught them the core fundamentals that will some day see them playing in future World [...]

Identity Page for me. I decided to sign up for a login/authorization service with MyOpenID.com. This is the first step in adding OpenID capabilites to my blog . . . I have to be able to authenticate
Anyway, I have found some code to setup my own server, which will allow me [...]

URL: Decentralized, REST-ful Digital Identity with LID (Podcast)
This will be a good followup to the LID stuff that I have been investigating thus far.

I have been trying to keep up with the developments of the new Web applications. I have a laptop that I use in a mobile way (i.e. I actually take it home and different locations), but there are still times when it is not enough to have the environment mobile, I need the applications [...]