Month: August 2018
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you don’t want to see those “Nearby” notifications about places or links on you Android smartphone any more?
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6260286
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support Avaaz!
https://www.avaaz.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avaaz https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avaaz
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Debian packaging: creating symlinks at installation time
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9965717/debian-rules-file-make-a-symlink https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dother.en.html#links
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“dpkg –install” and left-overs: .dpkg-dist and .dpkg-old
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/305435/debian-dpkg-dist-files-after-apt-upgrade#323957
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searching for a Russian language course in Tallinn, Estonia
my DuckDuckGo query: tallinn russian language course https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallinn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallinn#Demographics : “In 2011, … 46.7% spoke Russian as their native language.“ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartu – Tartu is certainly a viable alternative (about 150 km away from Tallinn, home for one of the oldest universities in Europe, with a tremendous tradition in Russian linguistics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia : “… in 2004 Estonia joined…
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“Master Roshi” is a fictional character from the Dragon Ball series
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Roshi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Ball Son#2 just compared me to Master Roshi – up until now I have neither known Dragon Ball nor Master Roshi. It is quite a little juicy in what sense the little guy compared me to that character.
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how do I encode UTF-8 characters into numeric character reference format (in Perl)?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4752353/how-do-i-encode-characters-into-numeric-character-reference-format-in-perl https://stackoverflow.com/a/4753600/3119172 $ echo ‘foobar’ | perl -pe “s/./ sprintf ‘&#x%04x;’, ord($&) /ge”
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Unix 7th Edition Manuals in PDF – where to get them
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/bswv7.html these documents contain the manual pages (in original layout) describing the Bourne Shell, awk etc
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“a language is a dialect with an army and navy”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_an_army_and_navy