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Clusters and Spaceships: Made by the Lowest Bidder
John Westlund
Apache
Redirect Web Traffic to Another Sub-domain (e.g. www) or HTTP to HTTPS
Using the mod_rewrite module you can configure Apache to redirect web traffic from one sub-domain to another. Usually used to redirect a bare domain ( http://xensoft.com) to the www sub-domain (http://www.xensoft.com). First make sure you're loading the mod_rewrite module in your httpd.conf or
Best Practices
Boot on Power Restore with a Mac Mini When Using Linux
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Superman Almost Revealed Nuclear Secrets?
CLI
Adding a Little Color to Recursive diffs
I have routine need to recursively diff two large directory trees with small changes sprinkled throughout. After staring at pages and pages of one diffed file after another it becomes easy to lose track of what two files' differences I'm looking at. An easy way to keep track of things
Regex
On-line Regex Checker and Visualizer
This is a pretty cool tool [http://regex101.com]. Type in a Regular Expression and the text you're trying to match against and it'll show you what matches as well as explain the the expression.
OSX
Disabling the Window Shadow for Screen Shots in OSX
Usually a window Screen Shot in OSX comes with a huge (40px) border that provides an aesthetic shadow. Unfortunately it makes the Screen Shots huge! Further, while you can't shrink the size of the shadow (which would be nice) you can turn it off completely. On the command line run:
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Evertaster
[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008FR4QTG/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B008FR4QTG&linkCode=as2&tag=xen02-20] Add this book to the list of light fair. A quick fun read. Evertaster [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008FR4QTG/ref=as_li_ss_tl?
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Confessions of a D-list Supervillian
[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004WE0D3E/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004WE0D3E&linkCode=as2&tag=xen02-20] Confessions of a D-List Supervillain [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004WE0D3E/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004WE0D3E&linkCode=
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Stardust: The Movie is Better than the Book
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00351DSCS/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00351DSCS&linkCode=as2&tag=xen02-20] I've been making my way through a bunch of books on my new Kindle [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BTI6HBS/ref=as_li_ss_tl?
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The Forever War
[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312536631/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0312536631&linkCode=as2&tag=xen02-20&linkId=Z7CG5GJMWHWLYIBF] The best and the brightest gathered and trained to fight off a mysterious alien threat. In some ways The Forever War [http://www.amazon.com/