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Apology to the Woman I Offended - Rescinded

In this week’s episode of the podcast, I made a comment which offended one of our listeners. She emailed us anonymously and stated she would be unsubscribing from our podcast.

After further consideration over the weekend, I decided that I was wrong, not in my initial comments to which she chose to be so offended by, but in the rendering of my apology. Continue reading Apology to the Woman I Offended - Rescinded…

Man Page Minute - mkdir

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Unix Time Hits 1200000000 Today! Watch it happen!

Today, Unix and derivative operating systems all over the world will have their clocks reach 1200000000. This is the number of seconds which have elapsed since the “dawn of time” (in Unix terms, anyway), or 1970.

If you want to watch your clock flip, just issue this command

watch -n1 date +”%s”

PCLinuxOS Tops DistroWatch

I wonder if this has any bearing on reality, but over at Distrowatch, PCLinuxOS has unseated Ubuntu as the most popular Linux distro.

Soon I Will Be Invincible - Great Book

After finishing it, I highly recommend the book. The parallels between Grossman’s characters and DC Universe mainstays are obvious, but the differences are refreshing and humorous. The split perspectives, half of the story told by the villain, the other half by a hero, also adds an interesting element. If you like superheroes, you’ll like this book.