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I've used JungleDisk, CrashPlan, and now Arq.

I left JungleDisk because it went sideways and S3 was too expensive. After that was CrashPlan; I liked its free remote backup option. But then my backup destination disappeared behind carrier grade NAT. That left me with paying for regular CrashPlan or looking elsewhere. Enter Arq.

Based on my estimated usage, for two computers, I calculated the following estimated yearly cost.

   JungleDisk S3 $288
   CrashPlan     $120
   Arq Glacier   $ 32
Assuming I didn't screw up my estimate, Glacier was a no-brainer, even with up-front cost of two Arq licenses ($70).

This month is the first full month in which I'm not seeding my initial Arq backup to Glacier. I'm hopeful that the cost will be significantly lower than CrashPlan.


Two guesses: cellular ___location services and custom radio telemetry systems. Maybe that's one guess.


Following the same procedure, you can also choose not to display your endorsements in one shot: rather than click "Manage Endorsements" instead click the down-arrow next to "Display your endorsements" and choose "No, do not show my endorsements."


Homejoy also got a writeup at AZ Tech Beat when they "launched" in Phoenix last month http://aztechbeat.com/2013/07/homejoy-an-online-booking-home....


I, too, switched to the RT-N16 after my WRT54GL died unceremoniously one day. The RT-N16 is a pretty good router but I want to caution any one who, like me, was awestruck by its 128MB RAM without considering NVRAM.

The short version is that, depending on your usage, you may run out of NVRAM before RAM and may lose your settings. For reference see [1] and [2].

[1] http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Asus_RT-N16#Current_Kno... [2] http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=506126


NVRAM should definitely be a top consideration. If you want to add any sorts of third party tools or customization to your router you will want plenty of it.

I have 32MB NVRAM to play with and that has served me well enough, but I see plenty of consumer-routers which can be "upgraded to dd-wrt" but which doesn't even have enough NVRAM to do an ipkg update.


Yet another fun use of watch, one of my favorite tools! I use it daily in combination with curl and grep to look for certain output of my JSON/XML services during development. The -d flag is especially useful in this regard.

  watch -d -n 5 "curl -s localhost:8080/some/service | grep status"
Along the same lines as the original post, I also use watch as an ad hoc, pseudo continuous integration tool for executing code that doesn't fit well within a REPL. [1]

[1] http://codeaweso.me/2012/09/using-watch-as-quick-continuous-...


Same here; and love that it doesn't clear the command line you're currently typing.

Does anyone know if there's a key command for clearing the scroll buffer?


Does anybody know if there is a command for creating an infinite stream of the character "y" + carriage return ?


yes(1).


I kind of hate to say this but I'm glad there's at least one other person out there who has troubles with TeamViewer on Linux. My remote coworker uses Ubuntu with two screens and we're unable to make the mouse work on the correct screen consistently. That and the screen won't update properly.


I've never had a problem with TeamViewer on Linux and I'm grateful that they made a Linux version.


Just to be clear - their Linux version is really windows one running under wine.


It has always worked pretty well for me but I only share one screen.


Honestly I'm amazed it works at all. They run it in WINE.


I wasn't aware of this, but mildweed posted later that PDO is coming. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4907099


As the article surmised, one of the engines did indeed fail and the craft corrected for the failure.

"Falcon 9 detected an anomaly on one of the nine engines and shut it down. As designed, the flight computer then recomputed a new ascent profile in realtime to reach the target orbit…"

http://www.parabolicarc.com/2012/10/07/falcon-9-suffers-engi...


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