22nd October 2011 – 4:14 pm
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and the source server is too slow to tar -z all these files without having the tar process killed (and the thought of waiting several hours to trickle 50,000 files down the pipe is too much)… rsync is your friend! With compression, efficiency, and resume-able, it took only several minutes to shrink-send 700MB. Background: a [...]
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“Home is never far from our thoughts, though. How many times have you looked forward for months to a holiday, only to find that on day three you’re already dreaming of your own bed? But when you return, the process starts all over again.” Mark Mason in The Times, July 20th
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30th March 2009 – 7:48 pm
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“According to the German national socio-economic database, vengeful people are more likely to be unemployed, have fewer friends and are less satisfied with their lives than those who occasionally let a bad turn go unpunished.” http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/27/german_revenge_inefficient/
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19th March 2009 – 1:27 am
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“After decades of running an IV drip right into their audience, people in the entertainment business had understandably come to think of them as rather passive. They thought they’d be able to dictate the way shows reached audiences. But they underestimated the force of their desire to connect with one another.” Why TV lost: http://www.paulgraham.com/convergence.html