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This article was culled from Multitouch screens are now off-limits to innovators . Via Slashdot, I have come to find out that Apple has been granted a U.S. patent for certain uses of touchscreen devices: a heuristic for determining that the one or more finger contacts correspond to a one-dimensional...

This article was culled from How to create big-ass empty files in milliseconds . dd if=/dev/zero of=bigassfile bs=1M count=1 skip=9999 See what I did there? This command, issued in a console, literally means: Duplicate data from /dev/zero (a zero generator) into bigassfile.  Do it in blocks of ...

This article was culled from Starting ZFS-FUSE up properly Here is a collection of tips you must pay attention to: Put the ZFS PID file in the root filesystem. Unset the LANG environment variable.  Failure to do so will cause ZFS-FUSE to hang if your /usr is on ZFS. Immunize ZFS-FUSE against th...

This article was culled from When being "college-educated" no longer means anything Let me start with a personal anecdote. When I took my first WordPerfect course (at the age of eleven, if I recall correctly), the teacher taught us which key combo bolded text.  Fortunately for us (both a large ...

This article was culled from A better way to create a customized USB drive with Ubuntu Live on it Many modern Linux distributions (Ubuntu included) provide a Live CD that you can download, burn and run directly without installing Linux on your computer. But what if your computer doesn't have a worki...

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