Dirvish is an excellent disk-based rotating backup application. Nagios is a fabulous service monitor. Combine the two using this Nagios plugin and you will know, at all times, the status of your latest backup run:
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The best keyboard ever built: IBM Model M
I own an IBM Model M keyboard, that I bought used. I initially bought it because it reminded me of the old XTs I used to learn DOS in. Over time, I have realized many benefits from it:
A college band in full 16-bit glory
The chaps at the UC Berkeley marching band have an amazing gift for entertainment. If you are old enough to have played Mario and Tetris, you’ll like this:
Five reasons to watch House M.D.
Do you watch House M.D.? I do. I can’t miss a single episode. I dunno about you, but here are my top five reasons to be whack about House:
You’re a moron… and you don’t know about it!
There are (let’s simplify) three kinds of people in the world. The superbly competent, the average guys, and the morons. But if you ask them, you wouldn’t know them from their responses.
La marihuana cura el cáncer ¿?
De la boca de Project Censored me llega un reportaje sobre un estudio médico español que reza “la marihuana (THC) cura el cáncer”… ¿Será cierto? Les muestro un extracto:
What hurts the most, by Cascada
Get this track. It’s amazing. It’s by Cascada. It’s crystal-clear and it has a great beat. You shouldn’t miss out on it. If you can, take the radio mix and the Yanou candlelight mix.
Me quedo con Onnet. SatNet está interfiriendo con las comunicaciones.
Después de cancelar mi servicio de Internet con SatNet, una letanía de horas y horas en el teléfono con la lista de proveedores de Internet de la guía telefónica, he encontrado el único servicio que ofrece lo que necesito para poder estar tranquilo: Ecutel Onnet (no tenía line-of-sight con las antenas de Ecutel, sorry. Estos son los detalles:
