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Rolling Database Backups
A few weeks back I decided to try to frustrate myself beyond belief by trying to write a bash script that would (among other things) dump a database every hour. That idea quickly...
rsync over SSH with expect
lately I decided that a good plan of action would be to take the web server files in my virtual machine: Apache config, Postgres config and databases, Moodle root and moodle data...
Zebra for Mahara
I’ve quickly gone back and ported my Zebra Moodle 1.9 theme to Mahara 1.3, if you want it – go ahead and grab it here. It doesn’t support custom colors as easily as Moodle, but...
Zenphoto Album Name Hack
ZenPhoto is a pretty robust, but light weight photo gallery software. The front-end is pretty sparse, but the framework is excellent – meaning you can customize the layout in...
sudo and OS X aliases
I spend a lot of time in the shell on Ubuntu – and in Gnome one of the basic features that I rely on is the right click “Open as Administrator” which will prompt for administrator...
smbpasswd-gui
I recently came across an application I wrote a while back in AppleScript to slap a basic GUI on OS X terminal program smbpasswd. This utility is basically the BSD version of dscl...
Google Books Fuller-Full Screen
Ever since I started using FireFox 4 Beta I’ve been wanting back my favorite plug-ins. Fortunately Firebug has their 1.7a that’s compatible, so that’s good, but GreaseMonkey seems...