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cross-compiling BusyBox is a piece of cake
http://www.busybox.net/FAQ.html http://landley.net/aboriginal/downloads/binaries The FAQ told me where to get a ready-made cross-compiler. I downloaded the most recent busybox sources TAR file. Within the untarred busybox sources I ran make menuconfig; make; make CONFIG_PREFIX=target_root_dir, then I ftp-ed the statically linked busybox to my target system, and halas!, it runs like a charm. What did I change within…
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1945-08-09: the U.S. Army Air Force bomber Bockscar dropped an atomic bomb named “Fat Man” on Nagasaki killing at least 35,000 people outright
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Man
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Twitter: one abusive way to gain followers, e.g. saramess=”Sara Messelaar”
https://twitter.com/saramess – Sara Messelaar She “favorites” one of your tweets, and you are foolish enough to start following her. Maybe you ask her, why she “favorited” your tweet. And you already know, it wasn’t a really important tweet of yourself. Especially for her I created a new private Twitter list by the name of “tmptmptmp” – and…
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my unfavourite Wikipedia contributors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dsimic (Dragan Simic) – executing WP rules, just because they got set up and he likes to – I guess he is bored otherwise
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Iran is hiding 51 million oil barrels at sea, Israeli maritime tracking startup says
Iran is hiding 51 million oil barrels at sea, Israeli maritime tracking startup says http://dlvr.it/BY6ZNS Source: http://www.haaretz.com/business/.premium-1.666398
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bash scripts and start-up files
Just my personal opinion – but with many years of experience on my back: most shell scripts (bash, ksh, csh) should be run without ~/.bashrc (or equivalent) – bash has “–norc” for that purpose, csh has “-f“ the PATH environment variable should be set within ~/.profile …, not within ~/.bashrc – do it once at…
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the Israeli NGO “Breaking the Silence” AKA BtS – in transliterated Hebrew: “Shovrim Shtika”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_the_Silence_(non-governmental_organization) If people from outside Israel look at the peaks of the Arab-Israeli conflicts, they should also consider BtS and their role and publications. The contemporary Israeli society also incorporates a very credible and honest group like this one. I personally trust them. In my opinion they form a rather honourable counterpoint. Having said this ……
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one year since Gaza, Haaretz asks: if we don’t learn from our wars, are we doomed to repeat them?
A year after the Gaza war, Haaretz sent its top writers to examine what has changed since the 50-day conflict between Israel and Hamas, and to ask whether – or when – the next war will erupt. http://www.haaretz.com/st/c/prod/eng/2015/year-to-gaza-war/
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movie: Marcello Marcello (2008)
For the love of the beautiful Elena the young fisherman’s son Marcello turns a whole village upside down. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1069235 What a lovely movie and story!