Speaking of Internet Censorship:

Congress is proposing a law that would force ISPs to block access to a list of specific sites that they specify or allow them to seize domains (like above) without due process.

More information:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-segal/stop-the-internet-blackli_b_739836.html

US citizens please sign this petition and donate if possible:

http://demandprogress.org/

Please act to keep the internet free and open for all.

Step 1: Figure out your username. Click on the tab and then copy everything in the url after the /

For example in the picture about you would copy smccrimmon.

Step 2: Enter http://www.facebook.com/poke.php?id=your_username

For example for the username smccrimmon, the url would be http://www.facebook.com/poke.php?id=smccrimmon

You should then see this page:

Click Poke and you should see this screen:

Congratulations, you have successfully poked yourself.

UPDATE: Remember to ALWAYS make a backup of your files regularly and especially before doing any automation work (like this tutorial).

Needed:
1. Linux server with rsync. (ask your host)
2. ssh-access to server (jailed ssh works fine)
3. A backup service with rsync support (i use Strongspace)
4. Putty
5.  FTP Client (I use filezilla)

Steps:
Step 1 - Setup passwordless access to strongspace from your server
Step 2 –  Setup rsync
Step 3 –  backup mysql databases

Open up putty

type in your server address and port (usually 22, but 2222 on hostgator)

Click Open

Now type in your username and password to login to the server. You should see something similar to this:

Now type in ssh-keygen and hit enter, then hit enter for each option presented. You should see a screen like this:

remember the location of your public key (should be similar to /home/YOUR_USERNAME/.ssh/id_rsa.pub)

Open up your FTP Client and login to your server. Navigate to the location listed above and download id_rsa.pub. Open id_rsa in a text editor (something besides Notepad, I use Notepad++)  Copy everything in the file.

Open strongspace and navigate to account -> ssh public keys Click add a new key. Give your key a name and then paste it into the box. Click save.

Switch back to putty and type in

sftp username@username.strongspace.com

type yes when prompted.

type quit, then exit to close putty.

Open your text editor

type the following (change strongspace username and account dir accordingly)

#!/bin/sh

### Configuration change paths/usernames

#

BACKUP_DIR=”/home/username”

STRONGSPACE_USERNAME=username

STRONGSPACE_PATH=/strongspace/${STRONGSPACE_USERNAME}/home/backup

#

#### Do the backup. Note: use absolute path for rsync

# Push the backups off to Strongspace

/usr/bin/rsync -a ${BACKUP_DIR} ${STRONGSPACE_USERNAME}@${STRONGSPACE_USERNAME}.strongspace.com:${STRONGSPACE_PATH}

#

#!/bin/sh
### Configuration
#
MYSQL_USERNAME=backup_username
MYSQL_PASSWORD=your_mysql_password
MYSQL_DATABASE=production
BACKUP_DIR="/users/home/somebody/mysql_backup"
STRONGSPACE_USERNAME=username
STRONGSPACE_PATH=/strongspace/${STRONGSPACE_USERNAME}/home/mysql_backup
#
#### Do the backup. Note: use absolute paths for mysqldump/gzip/find/rsync
/opt/local/bin/mysqldump --user=${MYSQL_USERNAME} --password=${MYSQL_PASSWORD} ${MYSQL_DATABASE} | /usr/bin/gzip > "${BACKUP_DIR}/${MYSQL_DATABASE} - `date +%F\ %T`.sql.gz"
# Push the backups off to Strongspace
/opt/local/bin/rsync -a ${BACKUP_DIR} ${STRONGSPACE_USERNAME}@${STRONGSPACE_USERNAME}.strongspace.com:${STRONGSPACE_PATH}
#