It's always great to have the latest and greatest gadget. That new netbook is so small and everyone else has it. The Droid does so many cool things, even SSH. I deserve to have all of this cool stuff.
I'm getting rather annoyed with this attitude. Sure, I really want …
"Jack of all trades, master of none" is a figure of speech used in reference to a generalist: a person that is competent with many skills but is not outstanding in any particular one. (Wikipedia)
It's a very easy to become this. When I was 15 I got my first …
WOW! I didn't expect this to be such a popular post. Honestly, I recognise this as a rant both now and before posting. I'm impressed by the number of people that were able to take a rant and make something nice out of it.
== Begin Opening ==
I ventured onto the …
How good are your backups?
I thought mine were pretty dang good. I found out otherwise. I had the following two lines running nightly for my backups.
# Make MySQL backup
mysqldump -u root -p "$(/.sql.pwd)" --all-databases | gzip > /var/mysqldump/mysql-$(date +%F).gz
# Delete old copies
find /var/mysqldump …
MTecknology - Keeping IT DRY
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