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I have never managed to get Clonezilla to work backing stuff up over the network. I use partimage on the System Rescue CD to make images via nfs to an external hard disk on my server.

For general backup I use backuppc. This automatically slurps stuff off my eeePC to the server. You can configure exactly what gets backed up and what gets ignored.

All my important day to day stuff is in text files, so I use git for them. If I am using my laptop away from the network I just do a git pull before I leave, which gets all my stuff onto the laptop. When I get back I just do a git push, which merges all my changes back to the server. I also keep a copy of my git repo on an Internet accessible server, so I can update via the Internet using the phone, if I forget before I leave home.

At home I keep almost everything important on my server and access it via nfs shares. The stuff I really care about is backed up to an external usb drive using Duplicity. This creates encrypted tar volumes. I do daily incrementals and full new backups weekly. The duplicity files are rsynced to my iBackup account. Duplicity is great for storing stuff off site. Everything is encrypted via gpg and it requires no special software on the destination server. You can send your changes via ssh, ftp and various other protocols.

Ian.

It should work OK, although I haven't used that specific drive. Make sure that you computer can boot OK from USB first, use something like a usb stick. I have got Ubuntu installed on my Archos media player and I can boot from that.

Essentially, if your computer has no trouble recognizing usb hard drives and can boot correctly from something like a usb stick it should work. However, don't blame me if it doesn't:)

Ian.

You have 2 boot sectors, one on the usb stick and one of the internal drive. I am assuming that hd0 is the internal one, so you need to:
sudo grub
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
quit

Which will install grub on hd0.

Ian.

I have been using bzr in my home directory for a while. However, I don't use it for the whole directory, as I suspect I would end up with loads of stuff in the vcs I don't really want there. Even with a .bzrignore file  think I would end of with loads of unwanted binary files in the repo. My approach is to add selected directories e.g. devel and Documents.

One thing I like about bzr is that if you accidentally put something into your repo e.g. a 10Gb mpg, you can easily remove it. Try doing that with subversion!

I also use bzr to keep track of my emacs org files, which now contain most of my life:) The main branch is on my home server, but this gets pushed nightly to an off site server. I also keep a local branch on my eeePC. If I go away, I just do a bzr pull on the eeePC to get the latest version of my files. If I forget, I can just pull from the branch on my remote server. I find this easier than rsyncing stuff and because it's version controlled if you make a mess, you can easily revert to a working version.

Ian.

I looked at gThumb, which looked quite nice. However, I can't edit tags and it doesn't store comments in the photo itself. I don't want my data in a database, that's what EXIF/IPTC fields are for. It makes moving between computers/image viewers much easier!

Ian.

If you subscribe to a mailing list, or are trying to find something on Google it's much easier to follow things if the reply is posted below the original message. This sig from a mail list illustrates why top posting is bad:)

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

Ian.

Very nice, but one small problem:) If I suspend, when I resume I still see the logout dialog box and have to choose Cancel to clear it. Looking at the script it seems as though self.quit() isn't being executed for some reason.

Ian.

Naughty boy! I accidentally did the same thing. Now I have registered I have noticed a couple of interesting things about locations at weather.com:

The list of UK locations on weather.com is much smaller than on Yahoo. There isn't a location on weather.com within 20 miles of here.

The codes for matching locations in weather.com and yahoo.com are the same eg. Snowdon is UKXX0295.

I wonder if Yahoo get their weather from weather.com and if weather.com don't expose their full list of locations in their xml feed. Time to do some digging.

Ian.

Can you get the weather.com site to give you non US forecasts? When I try to register for a feed, it will only accept a US state. I have a Python script, which uses the Yahoo feed, to update my web page, which I will probably adapt to work with Conky. See http://www.ian-barton.com/ to see the Web version. I have also got a python script I use with Conky to show the status of my MythTV box if anyone is interested.

Ian.