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Ubuntu guide
A very complete unofficial Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) starter guide
(tags: ubuntu linux reference)

Maintaining Mac OS X
Routine maintenance tips for Mac OS X
(tags: macosx HOWTO osx)

Tuning Mac OS X Performance
tips for optimizing Mac OS X performance
(tags: macosx HOWTO osx)

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I’m leaving for Vancouver tomorrow morning, so posting will probably be light for the next week. Our whole company is going to be there for various meetings & other events.

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My server is back up, running Ubuntu 6.0.6.

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When the power went out yesterday I was in the middle of upgrading my Linux box from Debian Sarge to Ubuntu 6.06. Unfortunately it was left in an inconsistent state, only able to boot to the console with no network access.
I’ve spent most of the morning backing up /home, /etc, and /usr/local to an external [...]

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Via Daily Kos — Charlotte Aldebron wrote this in ‘02 for a competition in her 6th grade English class while attending Cunningham Middle School in Presque Isle, Maine. Four years later, it seems even more relevant:
The American flag stands for the fact that cloth can be very important. [...] You can tell just how important [...]

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First we had a water main break so our water was off for most of the day. They still have to come back and fix it tomorrow, so the water will be turned off again in the morning. To top things off, our electricity went out about 6:30 during a big thunderstorm. It came back [...]

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Via MetaFilter: Syd Barrett passes on. Pink Floyd founder (paid tribute to by his former bandmates in “Shine On You Crazy Diamond) who had succumbed to mental illness passes away due to complications of diabetes. RIP. Pink Floyd was one of the most influential groups of the 60s & 70s, known for [...]

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I read about the 100 Mile Diet on Newsvine and it sounds interesting. When the average North American sits down to eat, each ingredient has typically traveled at least 1,500 miles from farm to plate. That’s a total disconnection from where our food is coming from.
Rising fuel prices are raising food prices (along with almost [...]

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David Pogue:
One reader writes: “I have recently had a vision. Give all school children their own personal flash drives as soon as they can demonstrate competence to use them. They can use it at home, in the library, at school, etc. No restrictions on what they put onto it. Textbooks could be made up to [...]

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My copy of Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach arrived today. I’ve been buried in it most of the day. This is the first book I’ve seen that really goes deeply into how OS X works.

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It looks like I’ll be going to Apple’s WWDC next month.

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