Linux Mint is pretty awesome
I switched my main desktop computer over to Linux Mint a while back. I'm liking it a lot. It feels a little silly to say that I like it better than Ubuntu—if I understand what I see in the upda...
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Three years after the last time, a system upgrade went wrong. This time, I had a backup (thanks, @DropBox) and I hadn't forgotten the password to decrypt my backed-up seekrit files—much less tr...
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Link: AllMyData
I occasionally backed up my files. But it was always ad-hoc: zip up an archive of some files, upload it to my web server. Done by hand when I got around to it (not often). Then there was the time ...
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LJ People: Do not be alarmed
(If you have a LiveJournal and you befriended my lahosken.myopenid.com account, I encourage you to stay awake through this post. The rest of you folks can fall asleep. Oh, but if you have your own ...
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Spam Filtering
If you send mail to this domain, I might discard it without looking at it. But I probably won't. For the last few weeks, I've been using a spam filter to... filter spam. I've been carefully lookin...
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