(Note: I stole this from my friend's blog - because his site isn't online at the moment)
Using 102 key keyboards with an an Icelandic keyboard layout
One of the most frustrating things about the Icelandic keyboard layout is that the <>| symbols are bound to an extra key only found on 103 + key keyboards, this key is located left of the Z character.
Despite this you will often find 102 key keyboards and laptops with 102 key keyboards being sold in Iceland, while this isn't much of a problem for your standard windows user it's quite annoying for programmers and *nix users which depend on sh/bash shells.
In my frustration I ended up creating a new custom Icelandic keyboard layout for 102 key keyboards, here is the layout along with a guide on how to install it.
This map uses alt-gr and the ,.รพ keys for the <>| symbols, this is handy because it's an easy one hand keypress and because 102 key keyboards will have the <> symbols printed in that place.
As a part of my site restoration, this page was salvaged and may not be up to date
While usually operating some sort of backup systems, it may become necessary to perform at remote backup of a machine without initiating locally. There can be a number of reasons to do this, such as:
You do not trust the operator of the machine you need to backup from. Various tools may be compromised to grab your passwords.
There is no space left on the machine to store the backup file
From the receiving machine (backup to)
# Using bzip2 as compression
ssh user@remote-machine.com "tar cj remote_folder_name1 remote_folder_name2" > backup.tar.bz
# Using gzip as compression
ssh user@remote-machine.com "tar cz remote_folder_name1 remote_folder_name2" > backup.tar.gz
