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There are versions of tar (that I have to use) which don't autodetect the compression type. And that alias includes non-tar filetypes.

I believe he was referring to this answer. Q: There had speculation that Samsung might be awarded damages as well because of its claim that Apple had infringed its technologies. A:…

Cute, but that wasn't the bet. They were referring to seven bash commands, i.e. "lines". So you lose by 242 commands.

He's talking about mailing lists where people submit patches and such, so 90% of the email is text only. And (here I'm guessing) he's talking about replying to, say, a patch email …

The blog linked to an img of a newspaper from the period. Here is the Library of Congress's archive of the same paper, showing the same letter. Now, that doesn't show that the Trib…

Nobody cares.

Lennart is a Fedora dev known for writing replacements for linux subsystems. For example, he started PulseAudio and systemd, a replacement for init. Recently, he's suggested a repl…

Official fighter pay is reported to state commissions and can be found on many sites after the event. What is not disclosed, and is probably the lion's share of most fighter's inco…

I had 15 or so collections (misspent youth, what can I say), it took me a year of off-and-on effort to clear them out. I had a very boring high-paying job, so I could take the time…

I second creditboards.com. It can be difficult and demoralizing to find what you need on there, but it's worth it. I've got several collections removed from my own report, and I'll…

The implication is 'proper for you '. One size fits all ... doesn't. But everyone should shape his tools to fit himself.

I disagree. The paragraphs were comprehensible and held together by subject matter. I had no trouble reading them.

Of course apples are kept for long times. 14 months seems iffy, but in order to sell apples all year round, you have to store them for many months. Most produce is sold this way, b…

Unfortunately, I can't offer anything specific to that video. But I can say that many of Derren's tricks are combinations of forces, multiple tries (how many ad execs participated?…

As pointed out in the comments BASE and HEAD (latest in repo) are what he's looking for. Now waiting for the author to say "Of COURSE Subversion diffs against the repository ..."

Oh that is awesome. I've wanted something like that. Sorry it doesn't make money!

I admittedly don't know anything about squatters -- but if you were going to squat in order to own a house, why would you treat it like a rental? You're trying to take ownership, y…

Is the guy living there now? Seems he would have the same incentives as any owner. I don't see why the neighborhood cares at all, or why anyone should care what the neighbors think…

To be clear, I was talking about physical cpu's, not cores. But honestly, that's not the right way to think about the licensing. Sure, you need a license for each physical cpu, but…

By my reading of this pdf, each physical CPU requires a license and each license allows for 24-48GB of guest ram. It seems they're specifically trying to limit licensing by vRAM, r…

To me, 24GB per cpu seems very low for a VM host.

BTW, this is an incredible list. I've been coming back to it over and over for the past week. The Abstract Algebra lectures are great -- very fast, very interesting.

He's talking about when you select the URL to copy it to another application, say an email or instant message. At that time you need the http:// so the other app knows it's an URL.…

The unification of search and URL bar in Firefox, Chrome, and mobile browsers makes this even more common, at least for me. I don't always know if the browser is going to find a bo…

Wow, that's certainly one way to do it. I'm still not seeing an issue with 'grep -v grep'.