January 2010
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Awesome utility of the day: pigz
Pronounced “pig-zee”, the description off their site is pretty self-explanatory: A parallel implementation of gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-core machines.
Since most servers now have multi processors, compressing large data can be accelerated using pigz (download here) as opposed to common built-in single-threaded tools like gzip/bzip2.
A quick comparison of gzip vs pigz on...
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“At the airport, a guy comes up to me, says, ‘Boy, you look just like Yogi...”
– Yogi Berra
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btw, THUG LIFE!
“You can do anything you want in life.. unless Jay Leno wants to do it too.”
– Conan O’Brien
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“Have a great day and, for the record, I am truly sorry about my hair; it’s...”
– Conan O’Brien
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From one of the perl mailing lists:
Hello, Back in 2003, I was subscribing to this list and I stopped it. I did post many messages. I want them to be removed. Because, I did not have idea, you will be posting everything on the internet. Google is able to find me. Please remove every link to my name in the mail-archive as soon as possible otherwise, I would have to take legal actions.
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Beastie Boys - Paul Revere
This always wins.
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Beastie Boys - Sabotage
The ’90s was fun.
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Passion Pit - Sleepyhead (Neo Tokyo Remix)
Makes...