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I’ve decided to post all the links and comments and bits and bobs I find on a new part of the website, called Obfuscation is Easy. There, they won’t clutter up any useful content I put on this site. It’s a separation of I’ve installed Crashplan on my Ubuntu server (it installed its own JVM) and now I’m trying to start the Crashplan desktop client using X11 forwarding. I get: … And life and friendship. My awesome brother-in-law, Andy McBean, has a new blog called Encouragement where he’s laying out some ideas about relationships that are very close to my... This is going to be very obscure, technical and humourless1, so unless you suspect your environment-set http proxy is messing with your python, you can stop reading now. This is actually two problems, and three... According to Lifehacker a frozen Linux system that’s not responding to the Ctrl-Alt-Delete three-finger-salute can be restarted more safely than by pushing the power button, which is usually... In Windows batch files, you can use a double-colon ([Solved] Can't run Crashplan desktop under Ubuntu
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