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Month: April 2010

Windows 7 Print Management = Fail

Windows 7 Print Management = Fail

It really irks me that even the latest-and-greatest Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium can’t get some simple functions right. Case in point: my amazing stubborn un-removable printers! Yep, there are 3 instances of FX DocuPrint here because the first two  (which no longer work as the networked printer has since gone local) won’t disappear no matter how many times I remove them as Administrator! Most people suggest using Print Management in the Microsoft Management Console; alas, the former isn’t even…

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Backing up your Debian/Ubuntu VPS to Rackspace Cloud Files

Backing up your Debian/Ubuntu VPS to Rackspace Cloud Files

There are quite a number of tutorials available on backing up to Amazon S3, which is popular due to its redundancy and low cost (15cents per gigabyte). I prefer Rackspace Cloud Files though due to its lower upload fees (8cents vs 10cents per gigabyte of bandwidth).  We will use duplicity to create the backups because it is bandwidth efficient and also allows us to encrypt our backups. We will also be setting up the cloudcity script to make it easier…

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