http://sharealike.org Law, Technology, Science, Music, Politics, and GNU/Linux Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:50:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Watching some World Cup games recently and hearing how Americans largely find soccer boring, noisy, full of sissies taking dives, and controversial officiating, the following suggestions occur to me: Allow each team captain three opportunities over the course of the entire match to request an instant replay where any of the ... http://sharealike.org/index.php/2010/06/23/five-ways-to-improve-international-soccer/ Pulte Homes, Inc. v. Laborers' International Union of North America (E.D. Mich.) ... http://sharealike.org/index.php/2010/05/20/links-for-2010-05-20/ I've previously used rdiff-backup to do remote backups of my Debian servers, but for whatever reason they tend to fail and I don't learn about the problem soon enough and I needed a new solution. Enter: rsnapshot. Install rsnapshot on both the remote machine and the backup server: apt-get install rsnapshot Save yourself ... http://sharealike.org/index.php/2010/04/27/remote-backups-with-rsnapshot/ One of my Debian servers had its load average pegged at 3.0 but top didn't show anything using a lot of CPU. A little Google research revealed this approach that solved things for me: top -b -n 1 | awk '{if (NR http://sharealike.org/index.php/2010/01/17/high-load-average-but-low-cpu-usage/ If, like me, you often find yourself searching for judicial opinions online, particularly to freely-available complete versions, and especially to Federal Circuit Court and Supreme Court opinions, then you've probably encountered the opinions at resource.org. I particularly like to link to these versions on my syllabi, because the paragraphs are ... http://sharealike.org/index.php/2009/12/14/a-firefox-search-engine-plugin/ Internet Archive: Free Download: gov.uscourts.cacd.16693 Perfect 10 Inc v. Cybernet Ventures ... http://sharealike.org/index.php/2009/12/13/links-for-2009-12-13/ Microsoft finally open sources Windows 7 tool ... http://sharealike.org/index.php/2009/12/10/links-for-2009-12-10/ This was harder than it should have been as the instructions could be clearer that two separate downloads are required. I've summarized here: I assume you have ssh or command line access to your host. If not, you could accomplish the same thing using ftp, but you'll have to pay attention ... http://sharealike.org/index.php/2009/11/23/installing-a-rich-text-editor-in-drupal/ I don't know why I always forget this command, or why it is so hard to discern from the man page / --help information. I just had my drives in an existing RAID array get out of sync and needed to rebuild the one that was down. This did the ... http://sharealike.org/index.php/2009/10/19/rebuilding-software-raid-array-on-debian/ CD Baby just sent me the following shipment confirmation email. It's witty enough that I'm willing to give them (and my friend's great CD!) a free plug here. Companies that write emails like this are in short supply. Brian- Thanks for your order with CD Baby! USPS (1) David Harris: St. Bartholomew and The ... http://sharealike.org/index.php/2009/10/07/cd-babys-shipment-confirmation-email/