James Emmrich

As mentioned before somewhere in my blog, here is the script I have written to back up my databases. This is actually my local backup script, I have a much different one on the server which uses a passwordless ssh connection to backup the databases offsite.
#!/bin/sh
# Database backup 2008 <jemmrich@gmail.com>
# Nightly Usage:
# 0 0 * [...]

Dropbox.com has become a huge time saver for me, and most likely a life saver as well.
I have a folder in my Dropbox called Home. Here I have sub folders for each machine that I have. My two laptops, a desktop which hold computer specific files that are different for each computer I have.
Files such [...]

I have found this handy article. One of my pet peeves is intrusive software. And with Ubuntu’s new release, Jaunty, which pops up the upgrade program in the mix of all your open documents and workspace, can be quite annoying. I will bloody upgrade when I’m good and ready thank you very much!
Useful excerpts:
Alternative method [...]