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Let’s do it.. Boston.PHP

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Any Interest in Boston.php ?.

Any Interest in Boston.php ?


I noticed at php-con that while there is a New York area php user’s group and there are other groups all over, there doesn’t seem to be one in Boston.  Anyone out there interested in such a thing?  I know Andrei’s here as is Kellan and others.  And I’m here for whatever that’s worth.


Basic concept would be similar to what the Boston.pm (perl mongers) folk do — get together once a month, geek about technical stuff and then end up somewhere for a variant on pizza & beer.


Happy to organize it and run a mailing list for it although since I don’t work a big company, I don’t have a place to host it (although I’m sure that’s addressable).

[The FuzzyBlog!]

You’re so Vain…

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You walked into the party
Like you were walking onto a yacht
Your hat strategically dipped below one eye
Your scarf it was apricot
You had one eye in the mirror
As you watched yourself gavotte
And all the girls dreamed that they’d be your partner
They’d be your partner, and

You’re so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You’re so vain
I’ll bet you think this song is about you
Don’t you? Don’t you?

You had me several years ago
When I was still quite naive
Well, you said that we made such a pretty pair
And that you would never leave
But you gave away the things you loved
And one of them was me
I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee
Clouds in my coffee, and

You’re so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You’re so vain
I’ll bet you think this song is about you
Don’t you? Don’t you?

I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee
Clouds in my coffee, and

You’re so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You’re so vain
I’ll bet you think this song is about you
Don’t you? Don’t you?

Well, I hear you went up to Saratoga
And your horse naturally won
Then you flew your Lear jet up to Nova Scotia
To see the total eclipse of the sun
Well, you’re where you should be all the time
And when you’re not, you’re with
Some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend
Wife of a close friend, and

You’re so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You’re so vain
I’ll bet you think this song is about you
Don’t you? Don’t you? Don’t you?

You’re so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You’re so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You’re so vain
You probably think this song is about you

You’re so vain (so vain)
I’ll bet you think this song is about you
Don’t you? Don’t you? Don’t you?

Headed Home

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On United Flight #5436 headed back to Taunton, MA, via Chicago and Providence’s T.F. Green Airport. A good vacation, got some sun, saw Cirque de Soleil, family, “big” Texas stuff, bought some yard art in Wimberly, what more does one want?

Tonight, tons of email to go through and finalize budget information prior to tomorrow. The first day back is always a killer. Ugh.

Backing up with tar and

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Backing up with tar and ssh. bbum: I found myself in a situation where I really needed to copy some files from a remote OS X box to my local system, but the only access I had was via SSH. Unfortunately, the files all have resource forks that contain pertinent information.

You can probably do this all at once:

  ssh remote.server.com -c 'gnutar cvp file1 file1/rsrc file2 file2/rsrc file3 file3/rsrc' | gnutar -x -v -p --overwrite

Here are some other handy ones:

– back up a remote directory to a local tarfile over a slow link

  ssh remote.server.com -c 'tar -cz /path/to/dir/to/back/up' > backup.tar.gz

– back up a remote directory to a local tarfile over a fast link, where the remote PC is very slow

  ssh remotehost -c 'tar -c /path/to/dir/to/back/up' | gzip > backup.tar.gz

Also rsync is great for this sort of thing:

  rsync -vr remote.server.com:/path/to/dir/to/back/up localbackupdir

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