December, 2008Archive for

Backing up an OSX profile to a linux server with rsync

TimeMachine is some nice software, but its overkill for me. I've previously written about this and how I put together a rsync solution and why I did so. In the case that anyone might be interested in doing the same, here is my setup. Linux Server I have a gentoo linux server, but this should be a mostly generic rsync server setup. My rsyncd.conf looks like this # /etc/rsyncd.conf # This line is required by the /etc/init.d/rsyncd script pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid use chroot = yes rea...

Bed’s Top Five Jailbroken iPhone Apps

The iPhone is my favourite internet-enabled mobile device - and I've used quite a few; I write software for Windows Mobile devices at work (and I hate Windows Mobile). But I don't wear rose-coloured glasses, the iPhone and Apple aren't flawless. Thus I fill the holes by jailbreaking my phone (running unauthorised by Apple applications). When an iPhone firmware update comes out I patiently wait until the jailbreaking community has updated too. To jailbreak your iPhone browse through the iphone-de...