Mostly Unixish is where I collect some good tips and tricks for Linux, MacOS X and (sometimes) other *nixes.
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Bash builtin disown is a not-so-well known [job control command] http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Job-Control-Builtins.html), and yet it's an extremely useful one. So what? You've started a remote ssh session, launched some command which is taking very, very long to
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Whenever I install a production system/server I tend to enable full automatic updating, because it's usually better that something breaks because of a failed update rather than leaving a production machine unpatched; and if you pick a rather stable distribution (Centos or Ubuntu LTS are good examples)
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Some days ago I ranted about an issue I had with Mercurial and Dropbox; basically, I did put a mercurial repo in a dropbox folder, and ended up with this kind of mess Mercurial repos inside Dropbox are not a great idea after all. But I had one problem: I