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Steve Jobs and Sir Tim Berners-Lee baffle the Brits
BBC News: "Microsoft boss Bill Gates was the most well-known but 5% of the group thought he was a comedian or a famous thief."

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Prevent shell from exiting in single ^D
UNIX BASH scripting: "The function of 'Ctrl-d'(^D) key is to exit the shell. If IGNOREEOF variable does not exist in your shell a single ^D will exit from the shell (this is the default behavior)."

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A Crash Course in Modern Hardware
InfoQ: "In this presentation from the JVM Languages Summit 2009, Cliff Click discusses the Von Neumann architecture, CISC vs RISC, the rise of multicore, Instruction-Level Parallelism (ILP), pipelining, out-of-order dispatch, static vs dynamic ILP, performance impact of cache misses, memory performance, memory vs CPU caching, examples of memory/CPU cache interaction, and tips for improving performance."

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Update your Adobe software Now
Sure, it's Secure: "Mac, Windows, or Linux user chances are you use Adobe Reader to read PDF (Portable Document Files) and Adobe Acrobat to create them. So it is that, no matter what you're running on your PC, you need to update your copies of Reader and Acrobat."

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A Decades' Worth of Linux Goodness: Top 10 Linux Planet Stories 2009
Linux Planet: "The top 10 most popular stories on Linux Planet covered a range of topics, and even included some very old stories that were published long before 2009. Is there value in that old mold? You bet there is!"

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Microsoft Names Miguel de Icaza one of its Most Valuable Professionals
TechFlash: "Miguel de Icaza, Microsoft MVP? Yep, it's true."

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The Microsoft-Linux Story As Told in the Comes Exhibits
Groklaw: "As far back as 1999, Bill Gates was asking his executives if there was a way to make things harder for Linux. For example, here's Comes Exhibit 3020:"

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Firefox 3.7 dumped in favour of feature updates
PC Pro: "Mozilla has dumped Firefox 3.7 from the release schedule, replacing it with regular features updates for version 3.6 of the browser."

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Prevent Accidental Shutdown/Reboot in Ubuntu
Linux Adda: "Molly-Guard is a command line script which prevents you from accidentally shutting down or rebooting your Ubuntu system."

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Bing Is Growing Faster Than Ever, Keeps Gaining Search Market Share
TechCrunch: "Bing just keeps on gaining market share, and is now growing faster than ever before. In December, Microsoft’s search engine gained another 0.4 percent to capture 10.7 percent of U.S. search queries..."

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Tech Tip: Dereference Variable Names Inside Bash Functions
Linux Journal: "We often read (including in the book Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide by Mendel Cooper) that if we pass variable names as parameters to functions, they will be treated as string literals and cannot be dereferenced (ie the value is not available). But this is not so..."

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Drive, Patient Data Go Missing in California Theft
eSecurity: "More than 15,000 Kaiser Permanente patients in Northern California this week are being notified that their personal information, including birth dates, addresses, phone numbers and medical-record numbers, was exposed last month after an unencrypted external storage drive was stolen from an employee's car."

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Tech Comics: "Geeks Have Always Been Strange"
Tech Comics: "And what are these lines for?"

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New GSM encryption cracked
Computerworld: "An encryption algorithm designed to protect calls on GSM phones has been broken by three cryptographers using only a dual-core, Intel -based Dell Latitude PC running Linux."

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Multiple wallpapers in Compiz
Ghacks: "But why would you want multiple desktop wallpaper? It seems like nothing more than aesthetics? To many that is true � but for some power users it can make it quite obvious what desktop is for what job."

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