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› Linode Custom Distro

Creating a Linode file system for a custom distro or from an already installed Linux box.
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› Automatically Reconnecting SSH After Sleep

If you spend lots of time connected to various remote systems via ssh then puting your computer to sleep can be quite annoying. Once you wake it back up, you have to go to each iTerm tab that contains a remote ssh session and close it (or wait for it to eventually time-out) then open a new one. The following script, run via SleepWatcher, will do this for you each time you wake your Mac from sleep.
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› Automated Remote rdiff-backup

rdiff-backup provides a simple easy means for providing remote backups. This is intended to be a simple, easy to follow set of instructions for implementing off site backups. There are some great advantage to using rdiff-backup for this, here are some of my favorite:
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› Recoding Temp with an Arduino

Simple thermistor voltage divider connected to an arduino connected via usb to a computer running a perl script. The perl script queries the arduino for current thermistor value periodically, logging it to a file that can be plotted with gnuplot. This originally appeared in my blog
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