http://www.techyouruniverse.com Musings about technology from a Geek Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:09:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Backups are something you must master to be a great system administrator. You'e probably found this because you were looking for a simple backup solution. Yes, you've seen Amanda. And Bacula, but they aren't simple. Amanda and Bacula are great products if you need all of their features -- and ... http://www.techyouruniverse.com/software/howto-simple-backups-for-linux-using-rsnapshot Two words. Thank. God. Ok, more than two words, because I know people are wondering how I feel. First, I left Yahoo! because of Microsoft. Yes, I was wrong about the final outcome. When I left it looked like it was 80% likely that it was going to happen. I'm still correct in my ... http://www.techyouruniverse.com/yahoo/yahoo-ends-all-talks-with-microsoft Let's say your laptop is stolen. Wouldn't that be awful? Now, what if you had a way to track down the person that took it and get it back? Using Linux or Mac, it's easy. let's take a look at a script that will do this for you. It will take ... http://www.techyouruniverse.com/technology/phone-home-script-to-protect-your-laptop Want to be an advanced debugger? My #1 Superman debugging tool is Linux's strace. If you have ever run into problems where a user complains that the site is slow, and you can't figure out why, you may want to give strace a try. From http://sourceforge.net/projects/strace/: strace is a system call ... http://www.techyouruniverse.com/software/debugging-web-apps-with-strace My co-worker, Artur Bergman, gave a talk today at the Web 2.0 Expo. He highlighted these rules of debugging, and they were great, so I wanted to share. Understand the system Make it fail Quit thinking and look Divide and conquer Change one thing at a time Keep an audit trail Check the plug Get a fresh view If you ... http://www.techyouruniverse.com/software/debugging-rules I left Yahoo recently, Friday was my last day. After taking some time off for family travel, I'm going to work for Wikia.com. Wikia is building niche community sites on the wiki concept, using the Mediawiki software. They are also working on Wikia Search, a community driven search engine and crawling ... http://www.techyouruniverse.com/wikia/going-to-wikia I've resigned from Yahoo!. Those that follow my blog knew this was coming, given how outspoken I've been about not working for Microsoft. To make it very clear -- Yes, absolutely, positively, my only reason for leaving was the upcoming Microsoft takeover. Otherwise I would have stayed at Yahoo! for many ... http://www.techyouruniverse.com/yahoo/leaving-yahoo-because-of-microsoft First, a little cartoon about measuring code quality. How true this is! See the original article here: http://www.osnews.com/story/19266/WTFs_m All developers talk about code reviews, but most of the time, it's one of those things that there is never enough time for, and always takes a back seat to other priorities, which means it's ... http://www.techyouruniverse.com/software/code-reviews-before-every-commit This is fantastic.Steve Ballmer, Jerry Yang, Sue Decker, Bill Gates, all portrayed as the appropriate characters. http://www.techyouruniverse.com/yahoo/300-parody-of-yahoo-microsoft-takeover In addition to being full time at Yahoo!, another company I work for part time, Wikinvest.com, won an award at the 11th Annual South by Southwest Interactive Web Awards for best website of 2007 in the business category. See the complete list of winners Hooray! Shameless Plug: Wikinvest is a website that applies ... http://www.techyouruniverse.com/technology/wikinvest-wins-award-for-best-business-website-of-2007