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How Richard Stallman Browses the Internet

[via:Hacker News/RT]

Qubes: a Xen/Linux based, open source local virtual machine based desktop OS

Read the introduction post on Rutkowska’s blog (which you might have stumbled over before if you remember Blue Pill).

The project sounds tremendously interesting as it might end up giving anyone access to strong desktop security/sandboxing of a type already available in an “enterpricey” form in products like Citrix XenDesktop.

[via:Mikko Hypponen]

Use Spotlight to speed up grep searches

[via:Olli Sulopuisto]

A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux

[via:ThomasTvivlaren]

Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial

[via:Joel Spolsky]

ack – a grep replacing search tool

[via:Hacker News]

Windows 7 RTM: vaativan Linux-käyttäjän mielipide

Unix turns 40: The past, present and future

[via:Slashdot]

Syntax Highlighting i GNU Nano

Ännu en typisk vett & sanssparande, Captain Obvious grej som jag av någon anledning aldrig orkat googla fram på ett par sekunder. Kod för hilighting av fler språk, inklusive PHP, finns på Linuxhelps Wiki.

[via:Charris]

Happy Unix Timestamp 1234567890! (Facebook event)

On Saturday, February 14, 2009 00:31:30, 1234567890 seconds will have passed since January 1 1970 (the beginning of Unix time).

[via:Kim]

I’m a PC, I’m a Mac, I’m Linux, I’m BSD

Man, I wanna meet Solaris.

See also: Get a Mac, Tron Guy, Berkeley Software Distribution and asking for FreeBSD help on IRC.

[via:Binero]

IBM developerWorks: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits

Ten efficient and maybe non-obvious but simple ways to improve one’s command-line usage patterns.

10 essential tricks for admins

[via:Hacker News]

Create a tar.gz archive of a directory while preserving permissions of files and sub-directories

tar -pczf name_of_your_archive.tar.gz /path/to/directory