We’ve all had those days where we want to beat our computer because it’s miss-behaving. Now you can make the physical abuse mean something useful, at least with IBM ThinkPads at least.

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Brought to you by the folks over at Lifehacker is a nice little handful of scripts (bash and python) that makes simple TODO managing not so difficult. Todo.txt is a nice bash script that manages todo lists in a simple plain text fashion. Nothing too complicated. It even allows you to break [...]

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I guess I’ve been using Gentoo now for just a little over a year. It’s quite nice in my opinion, and have multiple servers running it. I’ve not really had any issues with it until recently.

Gentoo uses a packaging system called Portage, it’s basically a bundle of files with details for the emerge [...]

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As I am sitting here reviewing a project I have to do, I am trying to figure out why I have to write a project that is fairly complex because the tools available are limited due to the operating system.

The project goal is to synchronize two servers, or more specifically two directories containing over 100GB [...]

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