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Ahhh…

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 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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[Second p0st]

A Taut, Last-Minute Stretch to Save an Airline. What happened at the Hyatt Regency in Dallas last Wednesday ultimately pulled American back from the brink of bankruptcy. By Edward Wong and Micheline Maynard. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Considering that we’ve dumped diplomacy on the floor for most of the last ninety days or so, this is unsuprising.

He’s Out With the In Crowd. Conspicuously absent from a recent cocktail party celebrating the fall of Baghdad was the nation’s top diplomat, Colin Powell. By Maureen Dowd. [New York Times: Opinion]

As for me, I still want my PowerBook to sync with my PowerMac Desktop to sync with my Compaq iPaq to sync with my Samsung cellular phone and my RIM blackberry and my iPod and the house mp3 server and….

Oh yeah, I want wi-fi everywhere embedded in every device all of the time. Especially on airplanes. 😉

Where Am I Going? Blog Events from iCal.
Thursday while I was listening to Ben Hammersly’s talk on the semantic something or other, I noticed that he had a box on his weblog that showed events he was planning to attend in the near future. I thought that was a good idea, so I put one on my weblog too. If you look to the right, you’ll see a box labeled Upcoming Events that lists things I’m planning on going to in the next 90 days. I didn’t really want to double enter this on my calendar and my blog, so I decided I’d link the box on my blog to the calendar I keep on my Powerbook. This is the story of how I did it. [Windley’s Enterprise Computing Weblog]

Star Wars Extras Needed [Slashdot]