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Padre 0.36 released

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On behalf on Padre's development team, I am happy to announce that Padre 0.36 has been released. This release prides itself with quite a long change list, including: fix of the darn cut/copy/paste bug... err, feature;many usability fixes Read Full Story
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Meet Padre

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You know, Samuel Johnson once said that silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. That's true, the longer I did not write anything here the harder it was for me to find a thing to write about. Or maybe I was just too busy with other stuff... Today, I received an e-mail from Toolbox that begun with: "Have you thought about blogging but haven't gotten Read Full Story
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Sunday evening musing

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It's Sunday evening here. I'm sitting with a laptop on my... er, laps... watching some Iron Maiden and Transatlantic vids, drinking whiskey and enjoying my only day off this weekend. Read Full Story
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Of /var and role playing

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Chris Siebenmann's yesterday post The problem with /var today reminded me of an interview question I was once asked. It went somewhere along these lines: "Let's suppose a /var filesystem on one of your machines is filling up quickly (which might be fraught with consequences especially on AIX), what would you do to remedy this situation?". So, I went through the process of locating which directory is growing so f Read Full Story
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Making excuses

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So, I've been quiet for how long? Over two weeks, it seems. Would you believe me if I'd say I was busy? Honestly, I was. Read Full Story
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1234567890 seconds

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I think the year 2009 should be called "The Year of a Second". First we had a widely celebrated leap second that delayed the begining of this year and now, in couple of hours, we're going to have a nice round numer of 1234567890 seconds since UNIX epoch time January 1, 1970. Read Full Story
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FreeBSD X.org upgrade issues

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In my previous post I have mentioned problems that recent update of xorg-server port introduced, wrecking havoc among FreeBSD desktop users. For some hardware/system configurations--like mine--it was a non-issue actually while other faced a major problem. So, if you're struggling with this update ri Read Full Story
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What might be ZFS good for anyways?

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How ZFS could help you with painful software updates. Read Full Story
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What might be ZFS good for anyways?

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How ZFS could help you with painful software updates. Read Full Story
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Troubleshooting SMTP AUTH

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Sorry for being quiet for so long, but the past week was a really strange one. Nonetheless, I'm back with yet another SMTP post for you. Read Full Story
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