{"id":576,"date":"2006-10-29T22:04:21","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T22:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2006\/10\/more_geeky_good.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:45:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:45:36","slug":"more_geeky_good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2006\/10\/more_geeky_good.shtml","title":{"rendered":"More Geeky Goodess"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keeping with my earlier theme, I thought I’d share some other geek fun I had this weekend.
\nI found, via the Total Choice Forums<\/a>, a nifty little script called dbsender<\/a>. What it does is create a dump of any MySQL database, gzip’s it and emails it to you. By setting it up as a cron job, I can now automate backups of the database that runs this blog. Now, each night at 3:00 AM, I get a backup of my site via email. Cool!
\nWhat’s even cooler is that a year ago there’s now way I could have understood that last paragraph, let alone write it!
\nSecondly, my Palm Treo 600 phone had developed this rather nasty buzz that had rendered it nearly unusable. I really want to replace it with a nice, new Treo 700p<\/a>, but alas I have 6 months left on my Cingular contract. There was no way I was going to get through 6 months of talking through a swarm of honey bees, so I Googled “treo buzz fix<\/a>“.
\nLink #1<\/a> on that list pointed to a simple solution that involved a T6 Torx screwdriver and a small piece of aluminum foil. It goes like this:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Sync your treo to back up you data.<\/li>\n
  2. Open the Treo case (that’s where the T6 driver comes in).<\/li>\n
  3. Unplug the battery wire and wrap it in foil (seriously).<\/li>\n
  4. Close the case.<\/li>\n
  5. Re-sync to restore your data.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Sounded to good to be true, but there were a bunch of comments testifying to it’s accuracy, so I dove in. I now have a buzz free Treo.
    \nA little aluminum foil, who knew?
    \nMore substantial posts to come this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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