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There's also Jesper Kenn Olsen who ran around the world twice; first eastwards, then southwards/northwards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesper_Olsen_(runner)

If you define polynomials by their roots instead of by their coefficients, then the roots tend to have wherever absolute values you tend to choose!

From "man perlfunc" unser "system": If there is only one scalar argument, the argument is checked for shell metacharacters, and if there are any, the entire argument is passed to t…

Tested by time (I'm the OP).

I'm the OP, so I can shred a bit of light on that: Dell's support suggested a file-level copy when I asked them what they recommended (but I'm not entirely sure they understood the…

Glad someone noticed it (I'm the OP). Reading the drives systematically is called "Patrol Read" and is often enabled by default, but you can tweak the parameters.

That's probably what I'll do if I run into a problem like that another time (I'm the OP).

Not so. Both the sending and the receiving tar processes will need a data structure keeping track of which inodes they've already processed. They can skip inodes with a link count …