Friday, March 12, 2004|
But I don't like... Fighting Spam on OS X Server Yet another of those I-found-this-a-long-time-ago-but-never-posted-it posts. |
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Picture of Grace Hopper’s Computer Bug The First Computer Bug. [Lockergnome Bytes]
Admiral Hopper should have stopped there... if she had, I wouldn't have COBOL brain damage. (I'm only mildly joking) |
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Make built-in DAV client work with HTTPS Mac OS X Hints has a hint about using DAV over HTTPS
Again, here I am... using the blog as a "I'll read and think about this someday" scrapbook. |
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Fighting Sync issues with technology I keep an offline journal. It doesn't get updated a lot, but sometimes I want to write in it. Since early 2001, I've written Now my issues lately has been how do I keep those both backed up and synchronized between my Powerbook and my iMac (my "personal" machine). The answer has been right in front of my nose for a while - use Subversion to store the files! With the files under source control, I can deal with my journal without having to remember which machine has the latest version ('oh, the iMac has entries from this and that day, but the Powerbook has entries from Saturday and Sunday.. hmmmmmm...') Because they are my journals, I'll store them encrypted in the repository, using GnuPG. (I'm not foolish enough to leave my journal entries laying around unprotected.) I think this solution is slick, easy, and since I already use Subversion and CVS to store some of my other necessities (like my BBEdit filters/glossaries/AppleScripts, unix config files, and other personal documents) I thought that would be a logical place for my journal as well. In the repository my journals will get backed up with the rest of my source code (backed up to a special folder every night, and backed up to a remote server every Saturday.) - plus the syncronization issues it solves. All this with very little overhead. Another case where programmer tools are useful beyond source code. |
