At the end of the previous entry in this series, I mentioned that there were still some things that made the backup system I’d developed less than optimal: The backup files aren’t compressed; Backups should always be read-only, even when the media is mounted, so it’s a lot harder for a virus or user-error to …
As mentioned a couple weeks ago, I recently picked up a new piece of hardware, a 1TB MyBook World Edition II. It’s a network-attached external hard drive that turned out to be a full-fledged headless Linux box. I’ve been wanting to change my backup setup to go to it instead of the CygWin ssh server …
The CMAA probably seemed like a good idea in 1954, providing only wholesome American values to impressionable young minds. But new research suggests that, while the main idea behind it (limiting the exposure of young minds to violence) was correct, the implementation was way off the mark: The findings, which are reported in the Journal …
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