Author: sroot
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Amazing Stories of Polio – in a shop window
One reason I’ve posted less and less to my blog this year is because I’ve joined a Rotary club. Rotary has been a tremendous amount of fun and given me a real big buzz of feel good factor seeing the difference my effort, combined with others, can make as we ‘Do good things‘. The best…
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Backups for Google Calendar – a ruby application
I admit I’ve not been so busy posting the to blog this year. One thing that’s kept me busy has been learning Ruby on Rails making my first opensource application. I’m a hobby programmer, so the idea of sharing my code is worrying. I’m sure there are lots of errors, bad practice and so on.…
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CRON – multiple cron jobs on one line (running consecutively, not concurrently)
This post will (hopefully) remind me in the future how to do something very simple. A crontab is normally running one command on each line. EG: # m h dom mon dow command 01 00 * * * /home/cronscripts/vine-warn-when-large-user-profile 05 00 * * * /home/cronscripts/vine-get-remote-pc-backup.sh 01 01 * * * /home/cronscripts/vine-samba-users 01 02 * *…