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using the “telnet” utility for testing ports – it’s sort of gone (on Windows nowadays), but they allow you to re-enable it
Back in the old days before SSH was “the standard way” to log into a remote computer, there “were” a protocol (and a utility) called “telnet” in order to achieve that. But the “telnet” utility traditionally also served for testing deliberate TCP/IP ports somewhere in the Internet resp. on your “Intranet”, e.g. Can I connect…
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started misc/busybox-w32/ on my GitHub.com account
https://github.com/JochenHayek/misc/tree/master/busybox-w32 – started with my .profile and my .shinit added a few lines (Re: “markdown”) to my article on the o’Reilly GitHub book – find it through the github.com tag here!
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the GNOME-DB project aims to provide a free unified data access architecture to the GNOME project for all Unix platforms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME-DB
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Best Holocaust movies to watch for Holocaust Memorial Day – Haaretz
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/holocaust-movies-17-of-the-best-beyond-schindler-s-list-1.514127
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Wikipedia:Edit_warring : The three-revert rule, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_warring
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Bradley Burston: “He’s a monster. And now he’s president of the United States.”
Bradley Burston http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.765635
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Shai Afsai: “Ignore the neo-Nazis! Benjamin Franklin was no anti-Semite.”
For 80 years anti-Semites worldwide have celebrated a bare-faced forgery, ‘Franklin’s Prophecy,’ as proof the founding father saw Jews as ‘vampires’ and ‘a great danger for the United States.’ http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.765668
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computer (etc) displays and colour schemes – “black on white” or “white on black”?
I have “no idea”, what is better for my health: a dark (or black) background a light (or white) background I think, the human eye enjoys white as a “general background”, … – so I somehow think, white as background is “more enjoyable”. I just noticed, that my favourite editor has white as background and…
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Windows .bat equivalent of the shell “source” command
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6781799/batch-equivalent-of-source-on-windows-how-to-run-a-python-script-from-a-virtu
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shell command completion with busybox-w32 resp. its “ash”
With Bash command completion works the way, I expect it – or through all the years with Bash I learned what to expect: If I try to complete through a relativ or absolute directory, it lets me complete (sub)directory names and names of executable files. With ash (under busybox-32) initially I had trouble getting certain…