Archive for January, 2008

Using smb and rsync to backup

Monday, January 28th, 2008

I needed a script to backup a workfolder to a Windows network server. I wrote this perl script that can be triggered using cron. First create a mount point. I used /smb/public. So to do so in two steps, mkdir /smb, then mkdir /smb/public. I put my scripts in ~/bin. Put this perl script below […]

NetNewsWire now free

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

I’ve been using NetNewsWire Lite as my RSS reader. It is great. Not only is it a standalone application for reading rss, but you can sync your rss feeds up with NewsGator online, so regardless of what machine you use to read your feeds, you can be in sync. Click on the badge to check […]

Inkscape

Friday, January 4th, 2008

I’m a big Adobe Illustrator user. But I realize that is a rather expensive program for the average mac user to have to penny up for. So I went in search of an application that could fill in for those who don’t have the resources. I came across a very capable program called Inkscape. It […]