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John Brian Harley

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J. Brian Harley Born ( 1932-07-24 ) 24 July 1932 Ashley, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom Died 20 December 1991 (1991-12-20) (aged 59) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States Occupation Geographer (John) Brian Harley ( ( 1932-07-24 ) 24 July 1932 – ( 1991-12-20 ) 20 December 1991) was a geographer, cartographer, and map historian at the universities of Birmingham, Liverpool, Exeter and Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He helped found the History of Cartography Project and was the founding co-editor of the resulting The History of Cartography. In recent years, Harley's work has gained broad prominence among geographers and social theorists, and it has contributed greatly to the emerging discipline of critical cartography. [1] Contents 1 Biography 2 Legacy 3 Bibliography 4 References 5 External links Biography Harley was born in Ashley, Gloucestershire. From 1943 to 1950 he attended Brewood Grammar School near Wolverhampton. After national service Harley gained a place at Birmingh...

Newberry Library

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Newberry Library Type Independent research library Established 1887 Location Chicago, Illinois, US Criteria for collection Humanities Access and use Access requirements Age 14, with research interest served by the collection; open access digital collections online Circulation non-circulating reference library Other information Director David Spadafora Website www.newberry.org The Newberry Library is an independent research library, specializing in the humanities and located on Washington Square in Chicago, Illinois. It has been free and open to the public since 1887. Its collections encompass a variety of topics related to the history and cultural production of Western Europe and the Americas over the last six centuries. The Library is named to honor the founding bequest from the estate of philanthropist Walter Loomis Newberry. Core collection strengths support research in several subject areas, including maps, travel, and exploration; music from the Renaissance to the early twentieth...

How can I rsync without prompt for password, without using public key authentication?

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Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP up vote 33 down vote favorite 14 I need to execute rsync , without it prompting me for password. I've seen in rsync manpage that it doesn't allow specifying the password as command line argument. But I noticed that it allows specifying the password via the variable RSYNC_PASSWORD . So I've tried exporting the variable, but rsync keeps asking me for password. export RSYNC_PASSWORD="abcdef" rsync root@1.2.3.4:/abc /def What am I doing wrong? Please consider: I understand that this is a bad idea from security aspect I must use only rsync , can't use other software I can't use key-based authentication I've already read many SE question, e.g.: how-to-pass-password-for-rsync-ssh-command @ stackoverflow.com rsync-cron-job-with-a-password @ superuser.com how-to-setup-rsync-without-password-with-ssh-on-unix-linux @ superuser.com In other words, I need to have the RSYNC_PASSWORD approach working! :-) ssh rsync p...