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Obfuscation is Easy

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

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[Solved] Can't run Crashplan desktop under Ubuntu

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:

$ cat /usr/local/crashplan/log/ui_error.log com.backup42.desktop.CPDesktop...

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Encouragement - Andy McBean talks about love

… 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...

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Obscure python urllib2 proxy gotcha

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...

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REISUB - the gentle Linux restart

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...

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Batch file comments

In Windows batch files, you can use a double-colon (::) as a comment. I’ve just spend a few hours trying to figure out why my batch file says, “The syntax of the command is incorrect.” when I run it. The answer? I’ve got a :: comment as the last...

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