I read about this in a computing magazine at work: Barclays is offering free antivirus to its online banking customers. If you are a Barclays customer this may be useful to you, especially as it is fairly easy to sign up for online banking!
Monthly Archive for June, 2006
Well, i suppose it was only a matter of time before they did it. Google Spreadsheets - Sneak Peek
I am looking forward to the day when I can grab my files from any computer and edit them on any computer (windows/mac/linux) and not have to have a particular version of software installed. Of course I would rather not have Google store all my documents, but so long as I can access them from somewhere I consider secure then I am happy.
A week ago I went to the Tower of London and took a few photos
I have also put up some photos of Hursley where I work. Unfortunately the house had scaffolding up, but the japanese garden was nice and the sundial was surprisingly accurate
Unfortunately it looks like it is not true
George Bush is visiting the Queen and he asks her, ‘Your Majesty, how do you run such an efficient government? Are there any tips you can give me?’
Well,’ says the Queen, ‘the most important thing is to surround your self with intelligent people.’
Bush frowns, ‘But how do I know the people around me are really intelligent?’ The Queen takes a sip of tea. Oh, that’s easy. You just ask them to answer an intelligence riddle. ‘The Queen pushes a button on her intercom. ‘Please send The Prime Minister in here, would you?’
Tony Blair walks into the room. ‘Your Majesty…’” The Queen smiles” Answer me this, please, Tony. Your mother and father have a child. It is not your brother and it is not your sister. Who is it?’
‘Without pausing for a moment, Blair answers, ‘That would be me!’ ‘Yes! Very good!’ says the Queen.
Back at the White House, Bush calls in his vice president, Dick Cheney. ‘Dick, answer this for me. Your mother and your father have a child. It’s not your brother and it’s not your sister. Who is it?’
‘I’m not sure,’ says the vice president.’Let me get back to you on that one.’
Dick Cheney goes to his advisers and asks every one, but none can give him an answer.
Finally, he ends up in the men’s room and recognises Colin Powell’s shoes in the next stall. Dick shouts, ‘Colin! Can you answer this for me? Your mother and father have a child and it’s not your brother or your sister. Who is it?’ Colin Powell yells back,
‘That’s easy. It’s me!’ Dick Cheney smiles,
‘Thanks!’ Cheney goes back to the Oval Office and asks to speak with Bush.
‘Say, I did some research and I have the answer to that riddle. It’s Colin Powell.’
Bush gets up, stomps over to Dick Cheney, and angrily yells into his face, ‘No, you idiot! It’s Tony Blair!’
I recently wrote about Backup Options but never mentioned how I actually kicked off the backups.
I use a crontab to start my backups, it looks like this:
@daily unison -times -batch /home/anton/Documents ssh://MyServer/Documents -servercmd /home/anton/bin/unison >> $HOME/cron.unison.log 2>&1
@weekly rsync –stats -auv –delete –exclude “*.db” –exclude “*/.pics/” “/home/anton/My Photos/” home:”~/My Photos/” >> $HOME/cron.rsync.log 2>&1
I am sure you can achieve this under windows with either cywin (which you will probably want for a good command line ssh client/unison anyway) or with the scheduled tasks and a batch file.
The commands are fairly simple, and redirect all output to cron..log (the “>>” redirect means it will append to the file and “2>&1″ will redirect all errors as well)
Rsync lets me exclude certain files. In this case I am excluding windows .db files (windows explorer thumbnails) and .pics directories (Digikam thumbnails), though I could copy them too.
The reason my photos are weekly as opposed to daily is because I might change/add enough photos for the upload to take more than 24 hours on a slow broadband connection (I do not want two scripts running at once, though there are defenitely better ways of achieving this i.e. writing a script to do the backup that checks for a lockfile)
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