Chris Lamb shows how to give cp a progress bar like wget: [link]
This might seem like some very minor hackery, and it is. But of such things are real advances made, eh?
This guy has brightened every single working day of the rest of my life. Thanks, Chris.
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Joomla! Cash is now available on Amazon.com, and I’m soon to receive my personal copies of the book. I’m pretty excited to finally be seeing the fruits of a long and difficult labor. Or, you can buy it directly from Packt Publishing. The Joomla! project receives 5% of proceeds from your purchase of the book, [...]

I’m pleased to announce that my long gestating book on adapting Joomla to business needs will be publishing on October 25th, 2007. “Joomla! Cash” will give the reader a quick read on how to rapidly establish a money-making Joomla! website, and how to adapt this powerful CMS to a variety of other business uses. [pre-order]
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“I did not lose my book. I DID NOT lose my book”.
That was me, as I realized that my attempt to install Gentoo Linux on a new partition had resulted in the NTFS partition on the same drive being deleted.
Thank God for Data Recovery software. I managed to pull my book back from the abyss. [...]

“In an oppressive political system. Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.” –George Orwell
In the cognitive cesspool called MySpace, the latest big trend has been for political campaigns to establish their online presences there in hopes of reaching the youth vote.
And you can see this from their perspective: with campaigns becoming increasingly costly, any platform that [...]

Like many a marketing-oriented web geek before me, I’ve been reading a lot of Seth Godin lately.
And, in working on my own book, I’ve finally hit a stretch where I can play that same coy, mildly-detached, “let the picture say all the words” game he plays in his writing.
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I’m moving.
From the scenic Hocking Valley of Lancaster, to the more urbane part of Ohio. Specifically, Cuyahoga Falls, which is sort of smack-dab between Cleveland and Akron.
I’m making this move in order to fulfill both my desire to be away from Lancaster, as well as to continue my relationship with my girlfriend, who was sorta/kinda [...]

So, I’ve been forced to break in yet another new keyboard.
And this new keyboard, to put it politely, sucks.
The keys are too stiff, for one thing. But that’s not what really bothers me. What really bothers me is that the designers made the [Backspace] key very, very small.
Who would design a keyboard with a miniscule [...]