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Long term strategy

That’s what I thought when I read the ongoing announcments (and the howling of the frustrated pro-users) over at Mac Essentials yesterday. Of course it would be nice to have new multi-core PowerMacs or PowerBooks. But few people would care. The announcements of the new iMac with it’s gadgets, FrontRow and of course the iPod (with video) and iTMS with video and TV-shows appeal to more people. A lot more. I think Apple is executing a long term strategy that seems to work just really, really nice. ...

Jens-Christian Fischer
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Back-up

This is one of the things that I should have been setting up a long time ago, but haven’t. Yesterday was the day. Remote Backup of my PowerBook. Goal: Continuous off-site backup of the most important files (my home directory) on my laptop Ingredients: Strongspace (I got a 4 GiB account for $8 / month) rsync (comes bundled with OS X) Ruby (comes bundled with OS X) SSHKeychain Setting up a Strongspace account is easy. Strongspace gives you secure offline storage that you access through SFTP or anything with SSH (like rsync). The cost is negligible if you care about what you have on your laptop. ...

Jens-Christian Fischer
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Tracking comments

One of the Blogosphere’s biggest claim to fame is the ability for conversations to emerge. The readers have the ability to respond back, creating a living two-way environment of interaction. So far so good. Unfortunately, there are a few problems. First the ubiquitous amount of spam that percolates the blogs. I regularly have to clean between 2 and 60 spam comments per day, even though I have anti-spam measures on my blog. Hopefully it will become uninteresting for spammers to spam blogs in some distant future - I’m not holding my breadth though. ...

Jens-Christian Fischer