username42

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   by username42 13y ago

   When providing support, you have to be very precise when you ask someone to perform a check. The sentence "can you telnet to the port" is unambiguous. The sentence "can you make a TCP connection" leaves the choice of the
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   by username42 13y ago

   AdBlock works perfectly well with gmail (my manual filter is mail.google.com##[class="mq"]). For privacy, I have installed "Mymail-Crypt for Gmail", but I know noone who uses pgp.
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   by username42 13y ago

   I also need an OS that just work and that gets out of my way. I have used ubuntu until the beginning of this year without fiddling into the system. This is the first year that I have to fiddle because I can not cope with unity. I have tried
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   by username42 13y ago

   If we surrender all our civilization progress just because of a "war against terrorism", then the terrorism has won and we are not better than our opponents.
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   by username42 13y ago

   Virtualbox ubuntu.
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   by username42 13y ago

   Kernighan's personal help file is excellent. If you need more, you should switch to a more powerful language.
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   by username42 13y ago

   I advise not learning more than basic usage of awk and to spend the time on more versatile languages. You can do very neat tricks with sed and awk, but when the problems become more complex, it is a lot faster to use a smarter language. And