A useful tip – speeding up your web browser!

I came across this little tip on Cods Place and thought I’d try it out.

The Codfather (how cool a name is that?  I wish my parents had given me a cool name like that rather than Keith!) explains Speeding up your Linux browser using a ramdisk.

I’m going to copy the basic instructions but you should really check out Cods Place – it’s full of interesting little tips and news – mainly about Linux!

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Backing up to Gmail

Gmail is, by its self, a great free email system but, with a bit of trouble, you can use it for purposes other than what it was originally designed for.

Although I have a Gmail mail account, I also use Gmail as a way of backing up my vital files. I do back up, on a daily basis, my entire /home/keckstein directory to an external hard drive but some of my files are so important to me that I can’t afford to lose them should I get visited by Billy The Burglar or, should the house burn down.

These are the files that I back up to a Gmail account and this is how I do it…..

I have explained (on my professional IT Site www.KeithEckstein.com), how I believe that we need to “Backup or Die” and here I shall show that it needn’t cost a penny as all the tools required are free.

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