I have been using BackupPC to automatically back up the systems on my LAN
for years now. It started out with a 3x250GB RAID5 as the storage pool and when
I ran out of space on that I added another disk to bring it up to about 700GB.
BackupPC does ...
Movie Landmarks is back online. I think this is the 5th iteration of the
project that I originally started back in 2006. It started out as a PHP app,
morphed into a python wsgi application. It was always backed by a mysql db
with lots of interactive features. For this ...
I use mutt as my email client. Something that has recently been bugging me
is that when reading a message it displays the original Date: header with the
sender's timezone. Since I work with people in several different zones I am
constantly having to do timezone math when looking ...
As you may have noticed my webpages have changed a bit today. After about 6
years I decided it was time to revamp things a bit. The old site was all
written in plain html with an attempt at reference link usage. I decided
to rewrite in Restructured Text using ...
When updating a rpm package it is nice to include a summary of the
changes made since the last time. anaconda does this with a nifty
script written by dcantrell called
makebumpver
which also enforces some RHEL rules and handles changing the
version. I only needed the changelog part of ...