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ridik: race conditions

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ridik: apostrophe ninja

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Configuring BOPM for TorDNSEL

Background If you have a working BOPM installation, you are trying to prevent abuses of your IRC network effected through anonymity services such as proxies. BOPM has built-in support for scanning for open proxies. It also has support for looking

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Downloading wget Without wget: Use bash

There are many ways to download and install wget without having wget itself installed. For example, one can use curl, a sort of competitor to wget, or a package manager with libfetch or some other library-level downloader integrated (such as

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Archlinux Chroot on Gentoo Guide

Archlinux is quite a popular distribution among the geekier crowd of GNU/Linux users. I understand that Ubuntu is the most popular GNU/Linux distribution in general. It may supposedly fit the needs of the populace, but that attempt to support getting

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ridik: libtool-archives

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ridik: qt4-multilib

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Kind of or Kind’ve?

Do you remember when you were told in English grammar class that “would of” is incorrect? You were corrected and informed that the speaker is saying “would’ve” which is a phonetic identity of “would of”. You probably made this mistake

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