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Items no longer right justified in XFCE panel after upgrading to 4.10
If you’ve just upgraded to XFCE 4.10 from an earlier version and you wonder why none of the items in your panel are right justified any more, the preferences page in the XFCE panel documentation has the answer for you, in a nice green box.
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Historic Bourne shell behaviour
Spot the problem in the following shell code when run under /bin/sh.
grep ^beginning file
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Feature phone vs iPhone
My feature phone’s best feature is still having charge after camping for a weekend.
Nokia 1, Apple 0
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Robot Jockeys
I just found out about Robotic camel jockeys today, but what astounded me was the illegal electric stun guns being used to make the camels run faster. -
Good ol' Quebec
sarahdeguelph is thinking of getting a PC Financial card, which gives you PC points. You can’t redeem PC points for certain things, like tobacco, alcohol, and, I kid you not, milk in Quebec.
Just what are the Quebec dairy farmers putting in their milk?!
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Impressive
sarahdeguelph found my keys, from another room, without getting off the couch. I’m impressed. -
JMS Rocks
I've been watching all the Real Ghostbuster episodes written by J. Michael Straczynski. I didn't know before tonight that he wrote my most memorable episode: "No One Comes to Lupusville" which has the same premise as Underworld. Thanks to Wikipedia and YouTube for making this easy. -
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Only in Toronto is -5°C described on the National as “biting cold.” -
Setting the record straight
For the record, gethostbyname2_r can return 0 yet still fail. -
Back from Sandbacks
Too bad it rained so much. Otherwise, it was a bunch of fun. Saw deer, wild turkeys, and way too many wasps. Actually went swimming!