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TypeRacer

Come on in, and see if you can beat me. I’m doing 115 words per minute, but some fat bastards with macros are doing up to two hundred words per minute. I need those fat bastards’ keyboards for me!

KDE obliterates the competition

Imagine 52 million children being simultaneously introduced to KDE and Linux. Well, you no longer need to just imagine it, because the Ministry of Education Brazil, over the course of this and next year, will do exactly that. This is unabashed success.

The difference between standard (SD) and high definition (HD or high-def) TV

You ever wonder why people are paying all over again for new TV sets and monitors? Well, wonder no more, because you’ll be able to see the difference here, clearly:

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25 años sin asesinatos

Suena a utopía, ¿no? Pues es cierto; la ciudad de Kennesaw en el estado americano de Georgia no ha visto un asesinato en 25 años. ¿La clave? Una ley que requiere que todos tengan un arma de fuego.

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Monitoring Dirvish backup servers using Nagios

Dirvish is an excellent disk-based rotating backup application. Nagios is a fabulous service monitor. Combine the two using this Nagios plugin and you will know, at all times, the status of your latest backup run:

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The best keyboard ever built: IBM Model M

I own an IBM Model M keyboard, that I bought used. I initially bought it because it reminded me of the old XTs I used to learn DOS in. Over time, I have realized many benefits from it:

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A college band in full 16-bit glory

The chaps at the UC Berkeley marching band have an amazing gift for entertainment. If you are old enough to have played Mario and Tetris, you’ll like this:

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Five reasons to watch House M.D.

Do you watch House M.D.? I do. I can’t miss a single episode. I dunno about you, but here are my top five reasons to be whack about House:

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