msw

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Back in '77 I worked with Steve Bourne on /bin/sh (little known fact: like awk, sh was named for its inventors, 'S' for Steve and 'H' for Humbert) and was responsible for the 'done' keyword. Following that I alternately pursued computer programming, field anthropology, and general philology; I currently work for an organization that has no name in the field of complex system obfuscation.

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40	Why is there a * When There is Mention of Unix Throughout the Internet?
15	Alternative to .bashrc
8	closing unused gnome terminals
8	flock(2) versus fcntl(2) over a NFS
7	Why does xargs cause apt-get to abort?

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+20	Alternative to .bashrc
+25	Unexpectedly lost speaker output. Headphone output works fine
+10	how to initialize `/etc/group`?
-2	Why does mcedit recommend removing hardlinks when saving a file?

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5	bootstrapping a DSL installation onto a machine with no bios boot support

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