I was introduced to this author Scott Sigler while listening to the Linux Link Tech Show.  Great stuff.  He publishes his books but also releases them in serial format in a weekly pod cast for free.  give it a read. Listen I don't think you'll be disappointed.

My Christmas List
 

for i in `fdupes -f -q .`; do rm $i; done This is an interesting way to remove duplicate files from a folder. fdupes is a program that uses various tools such as md5sum and also a bit comparison to determine if a file is a duplicate. Its available in most Linux repositories.

I've added a block with my Google Reader shared items feed to the left.  I think next I'm going to move on to my twitter feed.

Well I've come to the end of a semester.  Its been a rather grueling test of my programming ability as I'm not much of a C coder.  Next semester I'm taking Intro to Robotics and am hoping its a much more interesting class than this one turned out ot be.

Dear internet type folks, I'm looking for a beginner robot kit to play with. I've got lots of programming experience, and a lot of spare radio control parts such as servos, gears, transmitters and receivers laying around my basement. Anybody have an suggestions?

well this is a new site, I'm pondering replacing wordpress as it is a bit limiting.


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Easy way to backup files to a remote system securely. tar zcvf - /localfolder | ssh user@remotehost "cat > /storage/location/filename.tar.gz"

I got interested in writing a couple of months ago and during the times I'm not working or writing I seem to always be hunting for the perfect distraction free writing environment for my laptop.