Ostyman's Rumblings

• Download and install the latest version of R.
• Run it once—you’ll get warnings about missing packages.
• Open ~/Library/R/
• Find your previous R installation (i.e. ~/Library/R/2.13/), and copy the content of the library directory into the library directory of your new installation.
• Reopen R, then run update.packages() and respond away to the prompts.

Pocket + Voice Dream = Rest for my weary eyes, appeal to my sensory preference

Ponies!

Sorry, testing an ifttt.com recipe.

Testing, testing, 1-2-3.

Since Time Machine seems to do a poor (not to mention hyperactive) job of backing up VMware files on Mac OS, I took their advice and configured TM to ignore them.

That left me in the lurch, however, for the scenario where my primary hard disk takes a nose dive.

Here’s a little script I cooked up to back up the files, but only when VMWare is not running. Adding the gloriousness of Growlnotify so I get visual feedback that it’s working or that I’ve kept VMWare open for too long.

#!/bin/sh

GROWL="/usr/local/bin/growlnotify -s -m "

# Check to see if it's running
/bin/ps -ef | /usr/bin/grep "[/]Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/MacOS/VMware Fusion" > /dev/null 2>&1
if [ "$?" -ne "0" ]; then
  NOW=`date +"%D %r"`	
  $GROWL "$NOW Beginning VMware backup..."
  /usr/bin/rsync -aPh --inplace --delete /Users/mike/Documents/Virtual\ Machines.localized /Volumes/My\ Book/VMWare\ Backups > /dev/null 2>&1
  LATER=`date +"%D %r"`
  $GROWL "$LATER ...VMware backup complete"
else
  NOW=`date +"%D %r"`	
  $GROWL "$NOW Can't back up--VMware is running"
fi

Growl notifications from the command line:

http://growl.info/extras.php#growlnotify

:)