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Pocket SICP

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Abelson, Sussman, Sussman (2nd ed.) ("The Wizard Book") is available as an e-book-adapted PDF file from here.

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Telepathy-Gabble Security Bypass Vulnerability fixed

One rather nasty Telepathy-Gabble vulnerability, that anspa and I had encountered in late May, has been fixed in 0.16.6-1 (and in 0.9.15-1+squeeze2/0.16.5-1+deb7u1 for us happy Squeeze/Wheezy users).

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To gracefully miss each other by 110 yrs

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CPU Freq Gnome Shell extension vs Gigabyte GA-G41M-Combo Rev. 2.0

CPU Freq with Wheezy AMD64 seems to momentarily freeze X Window video ("intel" driver) every few seconds on Gigabyte GA-G41M-Combo Rev. 2.0 (G41+ICH7).

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Wheezy + sshfs + /etc/fstab

Dot-syntax in the third field is preferable to #-syntax in the first one (i.e. to "sshfs#remote_user@remote_host:/remote/dir local_mount_point fuse") if unmounting with umount, not fusermount -u is expected. "users", not "user" in the fourth field is needed, if unmounting by a … Continue reading

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Less traditional form of banditry

One reason for the bustle was that over large part of the continent other people preferred to make money without working at all, and since the Disk had yet to develop a music recording industry they were forced to fall … Continue reading

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Sensors issue with Wheezy AMD64 RC1 on Gigabyte GA-G41M-Combo Rev. 2.0

Another Wheezy AMD64 RC1 on Gigabyte GA-G41M-Combo Rev. 2.0 issue is inadequate hardware sensors monitoring after installation.

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Relocating Microsoft Windows NT users’ profiles postinstall

One peculiarity of administering Microsoft Windows NT is the alleged infeasibility of relocating the directory containing users’ profiles (%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\* in Microsoft Windows XP by default) to another HDD partition postinstall. There is a cheap and dirty hack to … Continue reading

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Wheezy AMD64 RC1 on Gigabyte GA-G41M-Combo Rev. 2.0

  Gigabyte GA-G41M-Combo Rev. 2.0 + Intel Core 2 Duo + Hitachi CM821F Issues: 1) Multiple “[pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Unable to load mixer: Invalid argument” in “/var/log/messages” and no sound from onbord audio (Realtek ALC887). 2) An absurd screen resolution. Solutions:

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...С ракеткой и гувернантками!

The Gardens are noted for two kinds of cricket: boy cricket, which is real cricket with a bat, and girl cricket, which is with a racquet and the governess. J. M. Barrie. The Little White Bird; or, Adventures in Kensington … Continue reading

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