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Interview with the author of "Mastering cat"
Shlomi Fish, acclaimed author of "Mastering mv" and "Mastering rm" has taken the time to sit down with us for an interview on his latest book, "Mastering cat". In this 344 pages-long book, Fish details everything you wanted to know about the UNIX cat command. We decided to have an interview with him to find out more about the book's motivation, content, and philosophy.
Funny if you use *nix....
eta: Online Banking Customers Migrating To Lynx
"Following the recent Pwn2Own competition, in which Firefox, IE8 and Safari all fell quickly to exploits, Netcraft has observed a surge in popularity of the text-based Lynx browser. Netcraft points out that Lynx supports the latest cryptographic ciphers, and at least one online banking site has seen Lynx usage overtake that of Internet Explorer and Firefox. To boost Lynx's excellent security history, Netcraft has even developed a version of its anti-phishing toolbar for Lynx."
Heh.
Not an April Fools story: One giant step closer to the Google Linux desktop
Google still isn't saying publicly that they're going to deploy Android as a desktop Linux, but HP, ASUS, and other major computer makers are apparently in talks with the company about deploying Android on netbooks
According to a Wall Street Journal report, Satjiv Chahil, a vice president in HP's PC division, declined to comment on whether the world's largest PC maker will sell either netbooks or smartphones running Android but confirmed that HP is "studying" the free operating system.
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Think about it. How do they find things on the Web? They 'Google' for it. The company name has already become a common verb in English and other languages. How do many people check their mail? They use GMail. What they do they check for news? They use Google News.
Going from this to using a PC that actually runs Google isn't much of a jump at all. Sure it will be the Google Android Linux desktop underneath it, but most people won't care about that anymore than they care about the Google's search engine's Linux underpinnings. All they'll know is that their netbook or laptop is running something by a name they already know and trust. And, since these computers will be based on Linux, they'll cost less than their brothers running Windows.
Cool.
It's only a matter of time before Google merges with iRobot and humanity is doomed.
It's only a matter of time before Google merges with iRobot and humanity is doomed.
Oh, dear. CADIE goes mobile...
Polaroid has a new "instant digital" camera out, FYI... [link]
with the screen, and the printer, I wonder how long the batteries last?
Omnis, that would be awesome!
Now I really need to call Time/Warner. What is your time frame for wanting to DVR?
I move the 11th and I'm heading to Yosemite with my sister on the 20th, so before that would be great. But really, I'm so happy to not to make this purchase that any time is great.
I have an ipod classic that's about a year old now. Lately, whenever I hook it up to the computer, it doesn't show, is corrupted, needs reformatting, can't do that until I let the battery die because the ipod froze, but it didn't freeze til I plugged it into the laptop.
Grrr.
I was attempting to update some of the apps on my touch through the app store and two of the apps have frozen in the update stage and have been that way for about a week now. i tried going back into the app store and redownloading, but since they're technically there it won't let me. i hoped when i plugged it into my computer it would update, but no luck there either.
any suggestions?
