JDPFu.com 2024

The titles aren’t always useful in knowing what the article is concerning. Sorry.

Computers, Scripting and Tools

• wget Rocks! mirror or download an entire website or just selected files with wget
• Task Spooler keep your UNIX computer busy by adding tasks, but not so busy it is overloaded
• Build your own RAID5 External Array – RAID storage is relatively cheap if you build it yourself
• VoIP Codec and Bandwidth Voice Over IP is here to stay, but most of the codecs used by the big players use more bandwidth than expected.
• Sage RSS Reader Really Simple Syndication is the best way to see the web and news
• Technology and Travel-Ultralight Computing Solution Camera, Netbook or Smart-Phone, and Practice are the keys to success
• Computer Tools I Can’t Live Without The stuff I use daily, check these things out
• Virtual Machine Trials A comparison of ESXi, VMware Server, VirtualBox, and Xen virtualization technologies
• How to Clone/Backup a VirtualBox DomU A good title
• How to convince your CxO to throw MS out Alternatives to Microsoft technologies for email, document management, LDAP, and office productivity
• Backup Schedules and Retention Sometimes the simple stuff is complex, sometimes it isn’t.
• Online Backups for Home and Small Business Servers rdiff-backup does incremental backups efficiently
• Linux HOME Backup with rdiff-backup Backup any directory with rdiff-backup – here’s a script to do it
• Computer Information Lawyers Need to Know Really, this is for any company with proprietary data, not just law firms
• Why You Need Truecrypt on Your Desktops Too Encryption is important for any data stored anywhere that you don’t want anyone to see, even the computer technician working to fix your PC.
• Buying a Laptop – Key Things to Ensure When it is time to get a new laptop, there are lots of details you don’t want to forget
• Easy Software Updates and Patches APT is the best package manager out there, period.
• Making Instructions with PSR in Win7 When you have a computer problem, use PRS to show exactly what you did to reproduce the issue. Send the resulting file to the helpdesk or your brother or your son and he’ll know what you did. Win7 or later only, but AutoHotKey may be a replacement for everyone else
• Why Not Use AntiVirus That You Already Bought? If you have DSL or Cable ISP, you probably already pay them monthly for commercial AntiVirus software like MacAfee and Norton.

Retirement and Investing

• Saving Rates needed for Individuals A simple chart for what percent of your income you should be saving based on age
• How to Save a $1 Million Saving/investing to get to $1 million isn’t hard, but you do need a plan
• Retirement Savings How much do you need to have to retire? PBS-Frontline did a show.
• Simple Investing Techniques Investing and saving is simple and easy. Do these few simple things.

Just Plain Interesting

• The Contrail Effect on Climate Change Clouds impact the climate. What happens when there are and aren’t clouds?
• How to Lose Weight and Keep it Off
• Great Water Falls of the World-Compared What are the differences in the 4-5 greatest waterfalls in the world?

There are other good articles, but they are within the last 3 months, so I didn’t include them here. To get a list of all articles in any month, use http://jdpfu.com/YYYY/MM/ format

E.g. http://jdpfu.com/2009/11/

I use the categories and tags religiously to link similar subjects. Just click on them if you have a specific interest. For example, I was very careful about tagging the travel blog entries correctly.

I hope a few of these old articles are useful to someone.