Category: General
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Use Emacs to edit compressed .ear and .war files
If you’re like me, you’ve often found yourself needing to change a setting, or view some information, buried deep inside a .ear or .war or .sar file. Well, you probably know that emacs can handle looking inside and editing files within a .tar or .jar file. Since .ear and .war files are just .jar files…
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Post URI changes
I have just updated the permalink/URI scheme for this blog to be more searchable. Therefore old links coming in may be broken. Hopefully a quick scan or search will help you find what you are looking for. Thanks! Devon
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Home Backups
I just setup some bash scripts leveraging rsync and triggered via cron to not only keep my external hard-drives backed up to their relative backups, but also to keep my wife’s laptop (MacBook) backed up to an external drive attached to my desktop (PowerMac). /usr/bin/backup:#!/bin/bash rsync /Users/emma/ -avz -e ssh ‘[email protected]:/Volumes/MBP\ Backup/tongari/Users/emma/’ rsync /Applications/ -avz…
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Java One ’07
I went to my first Java One this year. I was shocked by the sheer size of the event. Thousands upon thousands of people in the Moscone Center. Each session typically held hundreds of people. I wish the sessions had been a little smaller and a little more personal, but I think with the size…
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Server Move
I’ve just moved to a new, bigger, faster, better server. There were some transitional pains, but I think things are pretty solid now. If you had any issues with this site or with 10 Minute Mail, you have my apologies. Now we have room to grow.
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Spam
When I launched 10minutemail.com, tons of forum admins decried the idea. They screamed that it would let spammers on to their forums, and that they wouldn’t sell e-mail lists to spammers, etc… A month goes by, and let’s see what we have. My server used to get around 200-300 e-mail a day. In the past…