Devon Hillard’s Digital Sanctuary
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New Laptop
My new laptop arrived. I’m doing the setup tonight, and probably tomorrow night as well. it’s time consuming to get a new computer setup the right way, with the right software, the right settings, and getting it to feel like a comfortable productive environment. At some point I’ll put up a list of my “Must…
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Garage Sale Pile
We started building a garage sale pile in the guest room. It’s already pretty massive. I didn’t realize how much STUFF we had around that we didn’t use. Things that are in great condition, nothing wrong with them, just not part of our lives now. Hopefully, once we finish going through the house, when we…
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Ride
I spent most of the day riding motorcycles with or hanging out with my friends. It was great bike weather, and we went to up to Snoqualmie Falls, had lunch, rode around, etc… My new laptop finally shipped, so that makes me happy. Does anyone have good tips about setting up the perfect home office?
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Friday Night
we had a nice after-work going away party for myself and Jenny who’s last day was today. It was fun, lots of people showed up. Afterward we went to the new Fantastic Four movie. It was pretty but weak. The dialog made me groan way too many times. It was a pleasant diversion. Although it…
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Fangs of Love
On my way in to the office today, I came upon an accident scene on I-405. Not an uncommon sight, police cars, tow truck, lots of flashing lights and broken glass. Then I saw the first car. It was completely destroyed and crushed down to about 10 inches high. Every inch was crumpled and collapsed.…
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Home Backups
I just setup some bash scripts leveraging rsync and triggered via cron to not only keep my external hard-drives backed up to their relative backups, but also to keep my wife’s laptop (MacBook) backed up to an external drive attached to my desktop (PowerMac). /usr/bin/backup:#!/bin/bash rsync /Users/emma/ -avz -e ssh ‘[email protected]:/Volumes/MBP\ Backup/tongari/Users/emma/’ rsync /Applications/ -avz…
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