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This is my idea of an average Saturday morning. 

Time 

About Half past nine.

up and at this since 5 30 am. 

Systems.

One Mac G3 running Ubuntu Linux (command line only)

One Mac Mini running Mac OSX (controlled through the macbook via a remote secure shell)

One Macbook remote controlling 2 secure shell sessions on the G3 and one on the mini.

Project

Testing remote sync software to securely backup files off site without eating all my bandwith.

Number of tasks running.

About four , File transfer, setting up IRC client on remote machine, Listening to music, Writing article for the site. 

Literature

About 12 browser windows with information and one book "Linux for Windows System Administrators" by Mike Minasi

Music :

Itunes streaming MP3's from central server over encrypted wifi connection. Cygnus X : Collected works.

Drink :

Earl Grey tea , two lumps of sugar.

Means of communication :

Skype : Online MSN: Online Mail :Online. 

Learned :

A lot about the Rsync Command , About public and private keys in encryption and that I no longer need a graphical user interface on my Ubuntu machine.

State :

Hyped up because its working and yet wonderfully relaxed because this is my idea of fun. 

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