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How Swap works (in Linux)

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I was recently asked how swap works, and it turns out, I knew nothing about how it really worked ... i.e. when, what and why does a linux kernel move memory into swap space. Its probably because I hate swap and I actually disable it on my desktop/laptop/netbook systems...

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Hating the Ubuntu Upgrade Process

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I recently upgraded to the Precise Pangolin (12.05) ... but it wasn't a simple process. I had issues regarding dependency breakage which is probably a result of some of the ppa's I had installed. After deleting some of the packages I had installed from ppa's (e.g. Gimp...

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Finally fixed my Ubuntu upgrade issues

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Was having subtle issues ever since I upgraded from Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10. The major issues were all fixed the day I upgraded but the subtle issues showed up after. To be honest I cannot really blame the issues on Ubuntu, they may have not been the upgrade at fault with...

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Google's New Shiny Ajax Searching

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Teaching AJAX to our co-op student at GenieKnows.com (where I currently work) I decided to show him how it works on Google's search. In the process of describing anchor text, back button, transporting content, ... I had a look at what Google returns to display search...

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Can you be any more subtle?

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I have always thought of tickets as being something that is in place to protect and serve. Many people have slandered the institution that issues such tickets claiming it is a means of generating revenue, but I had always thought that it must not be the primary purpose...

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Rogers Wireless' Software Engineers Skipped Math

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I have consistently had issues with Rogers Wireless' incompetence. I wish I would find out where to apply as a Software Engineer so I can look at the, pardon my french, crappy code that powers their Accounting & Billing. Back in 2006 they have managed to delete my plan...

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How to turn an iMac on.

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Thanks to http://bridell.com/how-to-switch-on-an-imac-sic/ I learnt how to turn on an iMac. Stupid Apple!

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Mozilla uses MD5 to hash passwords. Tisk Tisk

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Unbelievable, Mozilla you should embrace the 21st century, you should have in the least salted those passwords.---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Mozilla Add-ons Date: Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 8:59 PMSubject: Important notice about your addons.mozilla.org account...

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Openetna 6.1rc5, bootV2.4.4 with y6b arabic webkit finally built

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I had issues building 6.1rc5 but I finally did it, I have also included the all new ADWLauncher 1.3.3 (it wasn't really a choice). The issue that I stumbled on was with the revision numbers, I kept getting an error compiling ADW, I wasn't actually looking a the error...

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