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The shell challenge: changing another process’ working directory

Don’t you hate it when you leave a shell open and you can’t unmount a disk volume because the shell has a firm grip on a directory in that disk? Well, there’s a solution.

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Three kinds of poor people

The Simple Dollar has fantastic advice for those of you who don’t want to die poor and in pain. Like, for example, this sobering snippet:

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Palm T|X

Do not buy one. Here’s why:

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Python packages failing to build (bdist_rpm) on Fedora 6?

Then I’ve got the cure.

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Have a blog or a Web site? You better not do these things

Guy Kawasaki writes an extremely insightful post about anathema behaviors for online publishers:

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CoComment: awesome!

Do you comment on blogs? If you do, you’ll love CoComment.

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iPod nano vs. custom Palm T|X: the rebellious shootout

Can an enhanced Palm T|X take on the iPod? See for yourself!

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Creating an effective online magazine with WordPress: the planning

Hello again! When I originally started I made a commitment to myself: log everything on the transformation of my Web properties. We all know how that commitment turned out :-).

To appease your thirst, let me point out what I’ve been doing lately.

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What’s with the ReiserFS data safety thing?

I constantly hear people badmouthing ReiserFS (V3). For example, see the comments on the APC article. I don’t really need to read an article to know that: even one of my college professors (who contributes to the Linux kernel) has told me so. I don’t know if it’s because people are misinformed… but I’ll pitch in with my two cents:

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