Category: General

MozyHome – The Never-Ending Backup

I've been wanting to look at online backup for a while to backup photos and music and such and to supplement local measures like using a ReadyNAS with RAID and having some spare hard drives for backups. The other day I signed up...

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Thanks, Lutron

We have Lutron switches and dimmers throughout our home. A few weeks ago one of the rocker switches on one of our Maestro MAW-603 3-way dimmers physically broke and became wobbly. I was worried because these switches can be...

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iTunes 10 (Mac) won’t burn to my external DVD writer

My MacBook Pro has a built-in DVD writer (which I have not had success using lately) and I also just purchased a Samsung SE-S084D External USB DVD Writer, because of my trouble burning DVDs with the internal drive. I've got the...

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Quick evaluation of Python expressions in Bash

A Bash function and alias combo that lets you evaluate simple Python expressions from the Bash command-line: The function and alias combo is necessary to prevent Bash from expanding wildcard expressions like * and ? and such. I...

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Upgraded to WordPress 3.0.1

For most WordPress upgrades, I just do an svn switch and then maybe upgrade the database and that's about it. Upgrading to 3.0.1, for some reason, was a bit of a nightmare. For some reason, svn thought tons of files were modified...

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Starbucks Digital Network launches

This is what I've been working on for the past few months. It's been somewhat challenging to explain what it is to people. Now I can just point them at this: Designed to Connect, Inform and Entertain, the Starbucks Digital...

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django-admin.py: No “startproject” command

I was banging my head for a few minutes because django-admin.py wouldn't accept and wasn't showing the "startproject" command. Well, it turns out that the "startproject" command is disabled when you have the...