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Automated, Bandwidth-Efficient, and Encrypted Backups

Monday, December 19, 2011

I made a bash shell script to automate encrypted (remote or local) data backups with Duplicity. Duplicity uses asymmetric GPG RSA keys to encrypt a tarballs of specified files to be backed up, and it also supports incremental backups. So, after making a full backup, it is more efficient do to the fact that it [...]

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Stallman

Thursday, July 28, 2011

I was playing with cowsay and found a Richard Stallman cow file on Crunchbang, with the suggestion to pipe the output of the vrms package (a little program that gripes about the non-free software you’ve got installed) into the cowsay file: I can’t tell if I’m making fun of Richard Stallman, or if Richard Stallman [...]

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Love

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

I just wrote the Hello World program in Python from command line: isis@narchist:~/Desktop$ cat > hello.py print 'Hello, world' isis@narchist:~/Desktop$ python hello.py Hello, world Oh sweet Satan. Life just got so much easier. I think I’m in love.

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