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8 weeks ago
Pascal:  It should not have a problem with parentheses, any valid CSV should work. Is the file Ending ".csv"? Can you send me the output of the following Terminal command?
qlmanage -d1 -t file.csv
8 weeks ago
Ted Fischer:  This is a fantastic plugin! Unfortunately, it doesn't work with csv data generated from FileMaker Pro. I wonder if it's because FMP encloses the data in parentheses. Is there any way to fix that?
Thanks, Ted
FMPA 8.5 Mac OS 10.5.7
13 weeks ago
Pascal:  Nice tip, thanks! Looks like rsnapshot.org was also inspired by Mike Rubel's post, but done a little more professional than my version. :)
13 weeks ago
zero:  You might be interested in rsnapshot(http://rsnapshot.org). It can do snapshot backups using rsync. Timemachine might be the best comparison to its features... It's available through macports.
13 weeks ago
Bogdan:  With git, repository history rewriting is possible, but I have never tried that (only using git for less than a year).
Anyway, thanks for sharing your experience. In some environments (like whole server backup) using git/svn for backup is not really a good idea.
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About the author

Thursday, November 29th 2007 - 17:50 • 1 update Friday, September 19th 2008 - 10:37
Here we go, another blog in the profundities of the world wide web.

What is this all about?
Well, sometimes I have thoughts I want to share. This won`t be a blog everyone wants to read every morning, dying to read the latest article. But I hope it will become a blog where once in a while, someone searches the net and stumbles across one of my articles, glad to see what`s written.

That`s fine, but who are you?
I am a 27 year old medic currently working on my MD-PhD thesis. There are three big areas I`m interested in: Medicine, Computers and Snowboarding.

Concerning my medicine branch, I`m really into Immunology and Bioinformatics, which is what my job is all about.

The biggest part of this blog will be dedicated to all the computer-related stuff. I`m a Mac- and part-time Linux-user and do quite a lot of programming. Together with my good friend Sebastian I run a small "company" called the Widgetschmiede, which is german for "Widget-smithy". I have also created some websites, like the Nettomed Shop or the famed hillrippers.ch website and some database webapplications, and since 2008 am creating Open Source iPhone applications, currently Eponyms and MedCalc. (Well, the iPhone SDK is still under NDA, that's why the sourcecode is not yet accessible, but will be as soon as the NDA is lifted.)
I love FOSS and avoid proprietary software wherever I can; no Photoshop, no MS Office, no Toast and I get along very well.

Oh yeah, I use the Dvorak Keyboard Layout since spring 2005, and it`s great. In that I use a Laptop, I`ve never actually used a real Dvorak keyboard, looking forward to Apple offering a Dvorak keyboard for its laptops...

As for snowboarding, check the hillrippers.ch website, that`s the place for that.

That`s all for now, enjoy my blogs and don`t hesitate to comment on everything.

"Do, or do not. There is no try"
Yoda

"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."
Robert M. Pirsig