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• @jadoba are you watching the game? did you just see the bases-loaded walk which gave us the first run? #
• @jadoba try http://tinyurl.com/5khxdm then, it’s pretty decent: http://tinyurl.com/5khxdm #
• home run by howard with two guys on base, score is now 5-1 after the 4th inning, philly in the lead…where we should be #
• @ricksanchezcnn both PA and FL are crucial states, which of the current world series teams do the candidates support? #
• brilliant! some fantastic home runs this game and i’m so proud of our phils! #
• Some crazy game tonight. How many homers is this? #
• Omg another home run. Amazing. I really cant believe it! #
• at work, doin my thing… #
• researching the history of african jewry #

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• waiting for the rain delay to end so we can watch the phillies win. #
• and the phillies win! #
• awake… #
• Lounging about and srsly thinking about dinner. #
• worst way to fix a terrible problem: http://tinyurl.com/5jurry #
• @mozillaubiquity had an issue where it appeared all of my commands went away. i reinstalled and it seems to be better now as i’m posting. #

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• shavua tov and time for some baseball! #

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• using ruby to fix r butt-ugly plaintext file i have. it’s pretty hideous but String#gsub works wonders! if i could only wrtie nicer regexs! #
• At the train station. Waiting for Sarah to arrive and reading the Kuzari on my palm. Plucker is so cool! #
• awake… #
• bought a new beard trimmer… #
• the holy shabbos is upon us! #

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• wow, my mother gave me her old Palm Tungsten C. if i wifi works, http://www.google.com/search?q=jabber palm might be useful! ideas? #
• at work, davened, have my coffee, ready to go! #
• brilliant: http://tinyurl.com/5dnpjo #
• http://tinyurl.com/5wmwe4 actually looks really clever. i’ve always been fascinated by AI so this might be an entertaining read: http://tiny #
• @jadoba sorry! the forecast only has rain this weekend and not a single flake of snow. #
• sushi is delicious! #

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• holidays are over, sad and yet refreshing. #
• @jadoba figure out using this: http://www.cookingbynumbers.com/search.html #

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• oh my, the wonderful world of distributed programming #
• just upgraded my router to run Tomato firmware. seems pretty nice, check it: http://polarcloud.com/ #
• back from a day volunteering at the Inglis House #
• @jadoba like many humans, i am allergic to cats. if you don’t have pets, it’s cheaper and you can have more guests! #
• shimini atzeret is coming, followed by simkhat torah…last two days of yuntif! enjoy the last bits, look forward to a normal schedule… #
• @jadoba i might seriously consider coming to visit if i knew i wasn’t going to cough, gag and get sick from your feline companion #

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• Watching W with sarah #
• So W was a very interesting picture though i dont know he it was as funny as bill maher said it was. three more weeks till redemption! #
• In transit back to philly. #
• On the bolt bus from NY to Philly. Gotta love the free WiFi. The connection is decent but intermittent. Even so, good enough for SSH! #
• home safely and back on a reliable network connection #
• @BarackObama you go man! way to get those endorsements and run a campaign of honor an integrity! #

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I have at least 3 machines running Debian on my network at any given time and I’m using Debian testing (currently Lenny) because it’s so close to being stable anyway. Still, there are plenty of updates on a regular basis and keeping my machines up to date is a rather big drain on my network connection considering that machines share basic packages anyway.

I looked around and found a wonderful tool called apt-proxy which will act as both intelligent cache and partial mirror for machines on a network. You set up apt-proxy on one machine with the names of whatever package repositories you want to use along with a few other settings.  I got some pointers from a wonderful article at Debian Administration by Steve when I was messing with the default config provided with the package. Once that’s all set up, you change all of the other machines’ sources.list point to the apt-proxy mirror you just set up. Then machines requests will get intelligently filtered through apt-proxy and duplicate packages will be cached for multiple machines. It’s great because it makes subsequent updates faster and simplifies mirror management on different machines. I could see this being very handy for clusters and doing large installs.

• Shavua tov! Time to get out of the house. What is this about the pitbull on SNL tonight? #

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