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Homebrew Package Update Notifications via Growl
Over the weekend, I finally upgraded my system to Mac OS Lion. I also took the opportunity to do a completely fresh install of my system, doing a final TimeMachine backup before erasing the hard drive and then installing Lion … Continue reading
World Backup Day: How I Backup
Today was World Backup Day, and, in the footsteps of Ars, decided I’d detail my current backup strategy. I first started backing up regularly after an incident back in college. One day the hard drive in my laptop began making … Continue reading
MacPort Package Update Notifications via Growl
I wrote a quick little script this morning to notify myself of updates to MacPorts via the Mac OS X notification app Growl. The script is a bash script that is designed to run as root from a cronjob (as … Continue reading
GCalendar Reminders
Google recently added the ability to create a birthday calendar. However, Google didn’t give one the ability to send reminders for the events on that calendar. This is the same thing that Apple has done for years with their Address … Continue reading
Benchmarking Redis and PRedis
At work, I recently was tasked with looking into some NoSQL solutions for upcoming projects. For various reasons, I focused on the open source Redis project. Redis looks to be adding new features quickly and seemed to be a great … Continue reading
GMail IMAP Backup With mbsync on Ubuntu
Well, it sure has been a while since my last post on here. So I thought I’d kick it off with a discussion of how I went about getting my email backed up. First, a description of my situation. I … Continue reading