Finding your “Back to my Mac” dynamic IP address.
Back to my mac is a service very similar to dyndns.com. both services solve the dynamic IP address problem. The main difference is that Back to my Mac is a very simplified and restricted version. It does not provide an easy online portal to identify the IP address of your router. Nonetheless, there is a very easy though not apparent way to locate your IP address. First, make sure that Back to Mac...
Read MoreOffline maps for iPhone – GPS while traveling
So you plan on traveling with your iPhone. The problem is that your iPhone was locked to a single carrier. You are going to be in a foreign country so you need a smartphone while you are there to navigate. There are many things you have to consider and most everything is covered in this article. Using the iPhone Abroad The Price of data roaming AT&T provides roaming plans, but the...
Read MoreEffect of US Government shutdown on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, historically.
With the news of an approaching government spending shutdown, it is important for investors to decide if this is bullish or bearish for the US Stock market. For this reason I am drafting a short analysis of the effect of US Government Shutdowns on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Two government shutdowns occurred during the Clinton administration, November 14 through November 19, 1995 and from...
Read MoreScript for Backing up directories to Amazon S3
First you must have s3fs installed on your linux system. There is a great article here that describes how to do so. This article also assumes that you already have mounted your amazon s3 box using a command like this s3fs <<bucket name>> -o accessKeyId=<<ENTER ACCESS KEY>> -o secretAccessKey=<<ENTER SECRET ACCESS KEY HERE>> /KOR -o use_cache=/tmp -o allow_other...
Read MoreScript for backing up files to any email account
The Following script was written for and tested on Ubuntu, but it will likely run fine on Debian and many other unix distributions with just a bit of tweaking. This scrip allows you to backup an entire directory to an email account. It does the following steps 1) create a tar archive 2) Split into 10Mb Pieces 3) delete the whole tgz 4) email the split files using mutt. can be installed with...
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