Thanks to Trevor for this little piece of information on how to manually run a time machine backup from the command line: /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/backupd-helper
Simple to put into cron when needed.
August 16, 2008
August 13, 2008
Display the Colors
While watching the woman’s gymnastics tonight I noticed an american flag in the stands improperly displayed. I think that every patriotic american should understand the rules. While surfing around, I found the following site: http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagetiq.html
August 8, 2008
too funny…
For you south park fans, you will appreciate this.
There is a City Wok here in san diego.
I had to stop from laughing as we drove by.
August 3, 2008
Think outside the box.
I decided to install VirtualBox this week. This is Sun’s freeware software that will allow you to run virtualized software like windows or pretty much any OS. Some of the commercial programs like VMware and Parrallels.
I was getting tired of the memory leak issues with Fusion so I decided to try this program. First off, the install was a piece of cake. It takes up a lot less disk space.
I didn’t have the patience to figure out how to convert my VMware images over, so I just decided to re-install XP from scratch. The install went supper fast. I installed from a network ISO and it took 1/2 the time of Fusion. The software boots really fast and so does the guest os. I can be up and running in almost a quarter of the time that it takes fusion to load.
I ran into a DNS bridging issue, but was able to fix it after a day of troubleshooting.
So far I am very impressed with this product. I will give an update as I use it more
August 2, 2008
It’s 1984 do you know where your Big Brother is?
If you ever needed proof that big brother is out there, read this article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080801/tc_nm/usa_security_laptops_dc_2
I have heard rumors of this happening and full blown denying by the DHS. It now appears that not only where they lying about it, but they have zero probable cause.
When I learned about the bill of rights I understood the Fourth Admendment to protect us from this sort of action by the US Government and all of it’s representatives.
If at anytime you needed to write your congressperson, now is the time.
In the short term, I recommend you encrypt your hard drives with something like TrueCrypt and put all your sensitive data on an IronKey.
If this is not addressed and recognized as an illegal act and a violation of the Bill of Rights it will only be a short time before the DHS is allowed to enter your homes and search everything without a warrant.
Please pass this on to everyone you know. Do not allow us to loose our civil liberties!
