On March 25th, 2011 at 2:38 p.m. in the afternoon, during an emergency Caesarean
section, my son, Robert Alan Pickering III (Trip for short) was born. The
pediatrician that tended to
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My first VaultPress [http://vaultpress.com/] backup was completed at 7:03pm,
Fri, February 25. I felt safe. I had been playing with various WordPress backup
solutions, including AWB
[http://wordpress.org/extend/
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Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6]) is the
“new” Internet addressing protocol created by the Internet Engineering Task
Force (IETF [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Engineering_Task_
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Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6]) is the
“new” Internet addressing protocol created by the Internet Engineering Task
Force (IETF [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Engineering_Task_
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I love Time Machine
[http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/time-machine.html]. For years and
years backups were something I was supposed to do, but never found the time to
do. Backups were
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I was wrong.
That’s not something anyone likes to admit, but when I’m wrong, I’m wrong, I’ll
admit it.
Some quick background for any readers who are experiencing my
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SSH Tunnel Setup
Create an SSH key (Version 2) to allow passwordless replication:
$ ssh-keygen -t rsa
Copy the SSH key to the Master (assumes same user account on Master and Slave):
$ ssh-copy-id master.
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A year ago I upgraded from Quicken 2007 for Macintosh to Quicken Essentials 2010
for Macintosh. I wrote about that upgrade in my article entitled Quicken
Essentials for Mac – The Bare Minimum [https:
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The Problem
I was recently perusing my /var/log/system.log file under OS X Snow Leopard (OS
X 10.6.6), also available by running the Console application in your Utilities
folder
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Note: Some of the quest givers are Trainers! Learn them and use them.
Note: Save everything you make, until all quests are completed.
Note: For best results, empty your bags of everything, you’
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There are many ways to customize your macOS environment to suit your personal
tastes. However, not every preference you want to change can be modified using
System Preferences or Application Preferences. Often, settings
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You can’t pick up a technical magazine, hang out on Twitter
[http://twitter.com/robpickering], or read an article on a technology blog
without hearing the phrase:Cloud Computing. What is cloud
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On July 20th, I moved my personal blog site, robpickering.com [https://robpickering.com/]
from SquareSpace [http://www.squarespace.com/?associateTag=pickerin] to
WordPress [http://wordpress.com]. This article is about why I
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I hate spam [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(electronic)]. I’m sure you hate
spam. I’ve spent a significant amount of my personal time working on solutions
to combat spam. I’
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