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Comment Re:Bacula (Score 1) 348

Use JungleDisk. It works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It stores things to Amazon EC2 which is pretty cheap per gig per month. Keep a backup on a single drive at home, and either EC2 or your drive will go down, less likely both simultaneously. Restore from the 'net if your local copy dies. I store all my family photos, work documents and other important things there. If you don't like the monthly fee, you can always go through the hassle of backup to tape, or maintaining an account on two or three friends' servers and hope they don't shut things off. For me, a cheap network drive (non redundant) for a local copy, and EC2 for a remote, offsite copy, enabled by JungleDisk, which can also encrypt my data, is worth the $0.15/GB/month. I pay less than $10/month for 50 some-odd gigs of data I'm backing up. Probably makes less sense if you are backing up terabytes of data, but if you're doing that, you'll probably be willing to back up, then drive it off-site, for super-safe keeping.

Comment Serve Documentation from GitTorrent (Score 5, Interesting) 208

This is cool, your code can be free. But unfortunately you're still stuck with hosting the documentation on a central website of some sort. I'm hopeful someone will whip up a standard for hosting the documentation website. IE PHP + SQlite + GitTorrent docRoot == Distributed website. Now several websites could support any GitTorrent-hosted documentation. Go to any GitTorrentDoc-enabled website, type in the .torrent of the repository, and blam -- the server pulls it down (or has it already cached) and you can page through the fully-dynamic docRoot. Could even contain Trac or something, so all the bug tracking is also in the GitTorrent repository.

Comment Automatically format and indent your file! 4 chars (Score 1) 702

I love to use the formatting that is included. Set your filetype and syntax correctly, then type:

gg=G

Now your indent preferences, as well as the filetype specific indenting rules are applied to your whole file. Great for getting a piece of code that has horrible standards, just gg=G and you've formatted your file according to your tabstop requirements.

What I just now learned is how it all works.

gg -> Go to the first line of the file.
= -> runs 'equalprg' and if empty, either 'lisp' 'cindent' or 'indentexpr' are run.
G -> Do something from where you are now to the end of the file.

Will not work if you've set equalprg to something else.

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Submission + - Gmail Inbox won't load using Google Chrome

ooglek writes: "In a strange twist of irony, Google has admitted that Google Chrome may not work with Gmail and suggests using Mozilla Firefox instead. "If you encounter a blank white page when trying to access Gmail in Google Chrome, and also when accessing iGoogle or other Google sites, you're likely encountering a known issue with Google Chrome. While our engineers are investigating this issue, you can access Gmail with another browser, such as Mozilla Firefox." Text is under the "Logging In" section, 2nd item in."
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Tesla Motors Shaken Up, Laying Off 491

tjstork writes "Tesla Motors, the darling of technorati for its high performance electric car, may be about to go belly up. Venture capital is cut off, layoffs are under way, and construction plans are being stretched out. Elon Musk has ousted the CEO and taken the reins, blaming the global credit crunch."

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