Life is a fusion of interests and energies, a crossroads of many different pathways of thought. This is an attempt at living into that messiness.
This post is part of my Upgraded Linux Backup series. One of the challenges I faced in configuring my new backup system on my Ubuntu Linux-based server was setting up my two external drives to mount at the same place in the filesystem. Why? Because the program I use to manage my backups, BackupPC, expects [...]
Part of the “Upgraded Linux Backup” series.
After obtaining (and assembling) my new backup hardware my first order of business was to get the external hard drives formatted and set up with drive encryption. In Ubuntu, the easiest way to encrypt a whole drive is using LUKS – it is easily readable by most Linux computers and can even be set up on a Windows PC, if absolutely necessary. This post will walk through the (remarkably simple) process of setting up encryption and formatting for most any USB flash or hard drive
After taking a couple weeks to upgrade my home network backup system I feel I’ve learned some lessons that some other folks might benefit from. So many lessons, in fact, that one blog post seems inadequate to contain them all. With that in mind, I’m going to be authoring a series on all the steps along the way.
I ran across a link to this article on Lifehacker yesterday and I think it’s worth sharing.With food prices on the rise many people are left with two options: 1) resort to buying less expensive (junkier) prepackaged foods or 2) cook more of their meals from scratch, which can often cost less. Recognizing these common [...]
aka “How I Stopped Surfing the Web” All over the internet, little orange icons (like the one on the right) and invitations to “subscribe” to web sites are popping up everywhere. You may wonder what this is all about. RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication.” But what is most important is that it literally turns [...]
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