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Securing your data

The lifestyle of today really produces a lot of data of all kinds; photos, documents, music and movies. As an individual you have a lot of choices to store the data and they are differing on complexity and cost.

The solution I’ve chosen is to use a home NAS server, The Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ is the one getting my vote this time! I’ve previously tried out the Synology NAS solution but after it crashed the filesystem twice (yes it hurts) I left it in the waste basket.

The setup will be;

• Netgear ReadyNAS NV+
• 4 1TB Western Digital drives
• Raid setup (have not decided to use X-raid or “plain” Raid 5 yet)
• Squeezecenter – for playing music on my Squeezebox
• Subversion – version history is nice!
• Remote backup, possibly Time Machine

I’ll post more information when I get the hands on it!

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Programming fonts

Once in a while you get annoyed over the lousy screen resolutions you get to use (when not using your own computer), especially when doing development work. Screen estate is really precious when using Lotus Domino Designer, Aptana Studio or any other development environment where all surrounding property boxes and other stuff uses up all space and leaves little left for the real coding. This calls for using a real programming font – a quick search reveals that there is a lot to choose from!

Good starting point I’ve found is;
http://keithdevens.com/wiki/ProgrammerFonts
http://www.proggyfonts.com/

I’m now testing Anonymous and liking it.

This is what it can look like

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fuel prices

A few month ago the diesel did cost SEK 15 a litre…

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Ctrl+Break in VMWare Fusion

One (small) annoyance about running Windows in a virtual machine is the key mappings – you get used to the keys of the host system and then you need to do the same in the guest system and it seems impossible…

Once in a while when developing / using Lotus Notes / Domino you need to hit CTRL+Break to stop a running agent or just interrupt the current activity. When using the Mac client you can simply hit Esc but when running VMWare Fusion / Windows there is no such option as the Mac has no Break key..

What you do is simply create a new key mapping in the Fusion preferences and you are ready to go! Find the key combination that works for you making sure that it won’t collide with the standard Mac ones.

Choose your own combination

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Bleeding edge

For those who like to be in the front-line of technology there is “Minefield” to try out… The latest trunk version of Firefox.

It’s amazingly stable and the speed is noticeably better then the current release version. I’ve been running the mac version for over a week and it just works. Nice work!

For download at http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

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