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This week is the first time in the year that I've owned mine that it has been down.
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I got both portions this morning on my Nexus One.
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OpenVizsla: Open Source USB Protocol Analyzer Kickstart Project
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I do a lot of bash scripting so I know `/usr/bin/sort` decently well. Using this technique I can use my bash scripting abilities to enhance my vim abilities.
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hjkl for moving around. I and A insert beginning/end of line. 0 and $ go to the beginning/end of line without entering insert mode. :%!command -- Runs the entire document through the command. If you use visual mode and then press ':!command
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I read on some blog that soon the ebook version will be out. Also it stated that No Starch would be giving the ebook away with purchase of the book. I know this is exactly the type of book I've been looking for over the last few months. As
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What is the advantage of using https over ssh? All I can see is being on a foreign computer. When on a foreign computer I generally don't even have git so why bother.
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Cuckoo's Egg it is the story of a man tracing a hacker.
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It seems like 90% of the uses for this can be taken care of with xargs: echo "file1 file2" | xargs -P 2 gzip
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> I love Excel and wish more people would actually spend the time to learn the nuts and bolts behind it. Most people think of it as a band-aid solution used by people who don't know databases Excel is a powerful tool and it is super use
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I love Espionage. Thanks for making such a great application.
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I know many of my classes required that I own and use a TI throughout high school. Other types of calculators where not allowed.
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I've spent the last few months fighting with Ubuntu 10.04 on my Lenovo x100e. Wireless was awful and if the modules were loaded the system would crash every couple of hours. The graphics card had all sorts of issues. No sleep, no hibernate.
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Wouldn't it be much easier to just restrict access to keyfiles and block anyone who fails more than 3 attempts? Not sure why but the idea of port knocking always seems over complex for little benefit.
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For vim and many other old programs ctrl+[ is equal to escape. So what I've done is map caps to control which lets me easily hit things like ctrl+c, ctrl+u or when needed escape. Mac also comes with a program that can map caps->ctrl in
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The slideshow drives me up the wall. I'm not able to follow along as I read.
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Apparently the source, thechive, is similar to the onion in that it is all fake. Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/czj2v/girl_quits...
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> horrendous monstrosity that is Netflix What is wrong with Netflix (besides silverlight)? I used the service for a very long time to satisfy almost all of my TV viewing needs.
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Possibly but at the same time most people who will be using the terminal at all on Mac are the same people who have been using the terminal on linux. For people that have been using the terminal on linux Bash is more user friendly (it is wh
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What I'm trying to get at is the percents (70% windows vs 25% linux) seem very counter intuitive. Microsoft links to another company who provides little to no information about how they are making their claims. From http://www.idc.com/getd
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I was very confused when I saw this link. There is another program called xrefresh that forces X11 to redraw all applications.
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I don't believe the Linux vs windows server market share numbers. My current company has about 40 linux servers and 3 windows. My previous company had 1 windows server to 5 linux. The one before that was a similar ratio. I'm looking around
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Run the following command to add Cisco IPSEC to ubuntu: sudo apt-get install network-manager-vpnc
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I may be the exception or not but we spent a fairly large chunk of time talking about it in middle school. That would be within the last 6-8 years if you are curious.
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Professionally a Sysadmin, in my spare time a growing developer.
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Salt lake is a bit different the east bench along the mountains is much more expensive. These areas are also much older. Things get cheaper the further west you go.
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Along the same topic I use a tilling window manager and will often have my screen squashed with terminals to the side. This http://imgur.com/SJVZW.png is what I see.
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I love "Remember the Milk". Wonderful android app and even better web app
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If you have an xbox or a windows computer check out http://fuse.microsoft.com/kodu/ it is a really simple game development tool. It is a visual event based system. You have a queue of events. You then define relationships. Events at the t
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I know most people can't use it due to needing email to be instant, but at least for my personal mail I've found greylisting to work wonders. What it does is tell the sender that it is busy/something is wrong and to call back later. It then
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