By Greg
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January 25, 2008
Pete, from Guerrilla Tech Support, has written a nice little howto on cron jobs. What are cron jobs? Read his post!
His little lesson would go along nicely with either of my last two posts about the “scripts” I use to keep my life, I mean files, in sync.
Have fun learning the ways of cron.
By Greg
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January 20, 2008
In going with the theme of my post yesterday, I thought I would add here another “script” I use to backup documents. It is a variation (simplification) of my main backup script.
This one is just for doing my grad school documents between my laptop and my desktop. It is really easy, look at [...]
By Greg
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January 19, 2008
So, I am having harddrive issues right now. Luckily I have a backup script run daily that keeps everything important backed up on an external harddrive (which seems to be doing ok right now). I also have any documents for grad school on 3 separate harddrives at any one time (I have learned [...]
By Greg
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January 16, 2008
Yes, I have a job now. I currently work for the Scholarly Publishing Office at the University of Michigan Libraries.
Right now it is a pretty mundane job. I convert incoming articles to a standard format (there is a little bit more to it than just Open -> Save As). When I am [...]
By Greg
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January 13, 2008
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By Greg
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January 11, 2008
So, today there was an Ubuntu Community Council meeting. I put myself up for membership approval; it didn’t happen. :(
Not because I wasn’t deemed member-ready or anything, they just didn’t get to me. The first things on the agenda (see link) took a long time which caused sabdfl to have to leave [...]
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