How to backup a Linux server with Tarsnap

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Jamie Lawrence in Linux, Useful

I picked up a dedicated server just before Christmas from OVH. It’s a nice little ‘Kimsufi’ 4GB Atom server which is more than enough for a couple of WordPress blogs and some personal projects. As it’s a bare-bones dedicated server I really want a decent backup service to make sure I don’t lose 11years of [...]

Impression of a Git

Posted on January 29, 2010 by Jamie Lawrence in Linux, Ruby on Rails

Git, in case you don’t know and haven’t met a recent Git zealot, is the latest/greatest/coolest/funkiest SCM ever invented. Personally, I think Subversion still has a lot going for it for individuals but I’ve moved two project to Git for the following reasons: Heroku (a Ruby on Rails host) uses Git as its deployment mechanism [...]

Linux on a HP dv1265EA Laptop (SUSE 9.3)

Posted on August 4, 2005 by Jamie Lawrence in Linux

Trying to run Linux on my new HP laptop !http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/images/emea/hp-pavilion-dv1000-notebook-pc-series_190x170.jpg! !/notebook/images/21.png!