The Linux Documentation Project — This site is the product of years and years of combined knowledge. From HOWTOs on how to set up a software RAID, to Linux Clustering, this is the place to start when you’re not sure how to accomplish something.
LinuxQuestions.org — LQ has a huge community with distro and purpose-specific [...]

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A friend pointed out to me Google’s odd, but sensible, convention of alternating street names.  I street is also spelled on Google Maps as “Eye St.”

Eye chuckled.  Oh, man that was bad…

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ASCII screenshot:

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( return to )
( craigslist )
( homepage? )
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O
O ^__^
o (oo)_______
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obligatory Big Lebowski quote…
The Dude: Fuckin’ Quintana… that creep can roll, man.
Walter Sobchak: Yeah, but he’s a pervert, Dude.

Yeah, he’s a pervert. But at least he can go to church where he bowls. I was in West Virginia when I saw this a couple of weekends ago and couldn’t believe my eyes. [...]

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Thanks to reader Marc S. for the early heads up on this. It seems you really never can judge a book by its cover! I blogged a few weeks ago on why Google would never do IMAP. Well, it’s time to eat my hat.
Getting started with IMAP for Gmail
Here’s a capture of [...]

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Ubuntu Gutsy came out today, which you should know unless you’ve had your head in the sand for the last week. Digg’s front page has been plastered with stories in anticipation of the big day, and I’m guilty of the hype, too, by writing a silly post earlier this week that made it to [...]

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The day draws near for Gutsy’s release (Ubuntu 7.10), and after running the betas and release candidate for a while, I’m quite impressed.
Gutsy feels snappier than previous releases; the whole thing is put together very nicely. Updates have been coming in a steady stream, and Firefox and MPlayer are up to their current versions [...]

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An article at torrentfreak.com hit the front pages of reddit and Digg recently, showing how to tunnel Bittorrent over an SSH connection. As a sys admin, loud bells began going off in my head. If I’m providing a free shell account to you, do you think I was counting on all your Bittorrent [...]

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I support Windows users at my office, so I also have an instance of Windows in Parallels.  I fire it up pretty infrequently, so I’m used to seeing update notifications as there’s usually one waiting each time I log in.  The one I saw today caught me off guard, though:

How bout that!  Sun is not [...]

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wget is one of my favorite tools in *nix land. Sometimes you want to convert a dynamic site to html. Sometimes, you want to download all the rpm, deb, iso, or tgz files in a directory. Other times, you just want to create an archive. wget does it all!
Here are some [...]

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