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Moving on from Gentoo…

Updated: I added a few more paragraphs that I had originally commented on in response to Mr. Berkholz’s comment.

I recently saw the announcement of the ‘fork’ of Gentoo, Exherbo. Its not really a fork, because there isn’t any shared stuff. The package manager used is Paludis, one of the alternatives to Portage in Gentoo. Several [...]

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I might as well get in on it, too

Modified for zshell:

paul@rando64 ~ % cat .zsh_history | awk -F \; ‘{print $2}’ | awk ‘{a[$1]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ | sort -rn | head 1435 cd 1057 git 1048 ls 950 vim 438 ruby 405 sudo 323 spec 272 emerge 265 rake 211 make

paul@rando64 ~ % wc -l .zsh_history 10027 .zsh_history

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MySQL Enterprise

I just came across this link about some new MySQL features will be for Enterprise customers only. The feature they mention here is online backups. I think I’m just going to stop using MySQL for any new projects.

I started using MySQL several years ago, near the end of the 3.x series. MySQL at that time [...]

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Comcast & Bittorrent

Comcast user? Bummed that they’re ruining your bittorrent? No problem. They way the kill your connection is by sending unsolicited TCP reset packets to your bittorrent client, making it think that the person you’re downloading from has closed the connection. If you’re using a good firewall/router, you can write a rule that will block it. [...]

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