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Annoyances with Intrepid

After having just installed Intrepid on a friend’s PC last night: I ran into this bug (here’s the fix) ATi’s dual monitor setup is still too hard (here’s how to do it) ATi’s drivers can’t do compiz and video at the same time (Install the latest drivers to fix it)

Cleaning up a set of tags with Awk

Introduction David R. MacIver has recently written this blog post about cleaning up a set of tags. This blog post, on the other hand, is about a nice old Unix tool called ‘awk’. Awk is one of those programs that is often overlooked. It is really a small domain-specific language for processing text. In some [...]

An Anachronistic Aphorism

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress. —‘Epigrams in Programming’, Alan J. Perlis, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982