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Remote Instance of Firefox via SSH -X

Monday, July 27, 2009

Firefox is a pretty decent web browser.  However, it can be a bit more clever than I want it at times.  For example, if I want to SSH into a remote machine and launch a instance of Firefox — to take on the remote machine’s IP address or access localhost — I would have to [...]

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Automatic backups using cron and tar

Saturday, October 6, 2007

This post is an import from a presentation I did in October of 2007. Since I’ve made this presentation, I’ve stopped using my own script and suggest you use another tool for backups. I hear rdiff-backup is good. However, I believe this is still a good introduction to bash scripting, cron, and [...]

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