Entries from September 2006 ↓

Another school shooting in Colorado. Fuck.

Yesterday, an as yet unidentified man walked into a high school in Bailey Colorado, took over a classroom and ultimately killed a student before killing himself.

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Hewlett Packard lost a customer - and a whole lot more.

By now everyone has heard that Dunn resigned and Hurd is in for a tough time, and may not survive as CEO. What isn’t widely known yet is the effect this will have on previously loyal customers.

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HP Chair Dunn resigns, effective immediately: source HP Press Conference (live now)

Moments ago, HP CEO Mark Hurd announced that HP Chair Patricia Dunn has resigned from Hewlett Packard, effective immediately, as a result of the investigation into the pretexting scandal.

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Tech Tip of the Day: Quick file deletion

Here’s another quick tip.  If you have a large directory tree (hundreds or thousands of nested levels), and you need to find and delete a set of files from the tree, consider this one-line approach:

cd [target-dir-top-level];for i in `find . -name \*tar.gz`; do rm -f $i; done

Replace my pattern ‘tar.gz’ with one that matches the files you wish to delete.

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Repairing the Healthcare System in the USA

With the exception of some front-page banners and badges for One.org and DATA, and a posting about my genuine admiration for Bono back during Live 8, this blog has been incredibly apolitical.

Until today.

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