Colin Zachary Phillips,
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Love isn’t as high as the sky or as deep as the ocean; it’s more.

I am a new subscriber to Linux Weekly News. For a long time, I’ve been a subscriber to the Linux Journal magazine; however, the best article that I find interesting is the kernel update article diff-u by Zack Brown. Anyways, the content in LWN is tantalizing my taste buds every week on kernel and other Linux news.

I purchased an Amazon Kindle a couple weeks ago and wanted to receive my LWN automatically over Whispernet. Thus is born send-lwn-to-kindle.sh. Amazon has a free service which will convert attachments to Amazon’s AZW format and email you back the converted file. Alternatively, use the [kindlename]@kindle.com to have the script mail the LWN (sans pictures so far) to your Kindle over the wireless connection for a fee of 10 cents.

The script is triggered from maildrop when my email account receives the LWN announcement email. Enjoy and please send me any improvements.

I finally figured out why this server kept going down (I hope). One of the drives in the RAID seems to have been bad. Paul swapped out the drive and restored the FreeBSD RAID. Hopefully things will now be fixed.

My Flickr Set

july4th-3765,
originally uploaded by trolocsis.

My birthday was on the 3rd turning the big two-seven. I don’t feel any older; however, America turned 232 years old. Uncle Sam is still kicking.

There has been lots of discussions lately (that I have read) in regards to privacy and data on laptops. More and more often people are being asked to show documents, images, and other private data to TSA security at an airport. Today, while messing around with Time Machine, I came up with an interesting idea. Before going on a plane ride to Someplace, delete or securely delete your user’s data. After you arrive back home restore from a time machine backup. The security of this approach depends on how far a user trusts their data deletion. Reinstalling is probably the safest approach, although a bit time consuming.

Update: Added links to some articles Article 1| Article 2| Article 3| Article 4| Article 5