This is really important!
git as a generalized backup utility interacts with and git repositories that it finds in an ‘interesting’ way.
It treats them as a submodule, so instead of backing up the git repository, it just records a reference to the current HEAD of the submodule.
I believe that this is “by design”, but if you [...]
When it was first suggested to me that you could just use git for backup I was not convinced. You would have these massive .git directories in high level places on your filesystem for one.
Now that I’ve had some time to reflect on the possibility I think that perhaps it isn’t such a crazy [...]
A while ago, I was fiddling around with a custom terminfo entry to try and get 256 colour mode working for angband with PuTTY. (No , I don’t have time to play; I do sometimes have enough time to compile the latest version and fiddle around with terminfo settings.)
So I managed to get it [...]
I hadn’t quite realised how much spam was irritating me until I got rid of it all. Previously I had a fixed procmail filter for info@, sales@ addresses for my domain and then let thunderbird perform its adaptive junk mail filtering on anything left. Unfortunately, my primary email address must have been exposed [...]
Make doesn’t have to be just for complex code building applications.
I have my own postgres database of the albums that I own and have ripped, mainly because I’m a bit picky about the formatting of tag metadata.
I have a script that you can point at a musicbrainz album entry and it will download it in [...]
Well the upgrade to Wordpress 2.2.1 seemed to go relatively harmlessly and while I was at it I set up a cron job to backup my mysql database (not my choice, no postgresql option) to my home computer.
ssh is a very powerful tool. My backup across the network is a really simple shell script [...]
Well this is it, it looks like I’ve managed to install Wordpress in my webspace. Now I just need something to write about…