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It's high noon for the internet and the ITU.
The watch you see was from the 1998 plenipotentiary conference in Minneapolis. I implemented the RealAudio streaming for the conference back when I worked in the IT department at the ITU.
Engraved on the back of the watch is the text "Offered by SWISSCOM".
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Instead of tossing that torrent of catalogs consider using Catalog Choice to stop them at the source. Results have been noticeable after using them for about a year.
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WTF? Why is this snippet so awful? Can we fix it?
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Liking btrfs a lot. This weekend I started upgrading to a 2x2T drive setup for media from a single 1T drive. A bit of a pain, but I learned a bit. I also found out that my current drive was probably in worse shape than I thought.
- Upgrading Seagate drive firmware using grub2 chained bootable iso was a no-go. Will just have to live with it.
- Learned about GPT partitions and 4k sectors and gdisk. Nice to see that drive partitioning has almost progressed beyond MBR and 4 partitions.
- Added the new drive using btrfs device add
- Converted to RAID1 using btrfs balance
- Almost freaked out when my old drive hit a patch of bad sectors.
- Deleted some unused junk on the drive. Rebooted
- Started the balance again, success! (btrfs also remapped a bunch of bad metadata using it's built-in redundancy! btrfs read error corrected:)
Next up, removing the old drive and adding in the 2nd 2T drive, followed by moving the root and home partitions to a new SSD. Anyone using btrfs on their boot partition?
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Get your #musicmonday moving with some Greek punk/grunge.
You can really hear the Nirvana-esque Steve Albini production along with shades of X, the Sex Pistols and Gossip.
I suppose Punk from disaffected youth is the only silver lining for the Greek financial mess.
h/t to Pixbear for review.
