Automated scp on Linux

Scenario You would like to automate the export of SQL dump files from one Linux server to another using scp. These dump files are to be generated and exported once every two weeks. You also wish to archive these dump files on the source server. So let’s say the servers and directories are as follows: […]

Answering “So … what do you do?”

For most types of work, only two levels of description are ever needed. Accountants, for example, would describe themselves as accountants to laypeople, and “tax” or “GL” or “fixed assets” to other accountants. For my line of work, however, I find it interesting that I need to give lots of different answers to different kinds […]

MSDN with FF3

Is it just me or does Firefox 3 (3.0.3) crash outright when opening the MSDN homepage?

The RAHMAN Theory

Have you ever heard of the RAHMAN theory? According to this so-called theory, the first six prime ministers of Malaysia will be in the order of the first prime minister’s name, as follows: Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj Tun Abdul Razak Tun Hussein Onn Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad Dato’ Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Datuk Seri […]

The US Credit Crunch

Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers; bailout of AIG. How did this happen? Let’s ask Warren Buffett, investment guru: If [AIG] had never heard of the word derivatives, they’d be doing fine. They’d be going to work in the morning and they would have no troubles … I said they were possibly financial weapons of mass destruction, […]