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…to Confederation Park/Kensington, unfortunately we are saving money for Las Vegas therefore Confederation Park and Kensington will have to do, for now.

Not much to do in Confederation Park, I did taste some mushrooms ;)

Once we had our fun at the park, we moved on to Kensington. Most shops there are too expensive for us anyway, except for Purr. After shopping we went and grabbed some cupcakes from Crave, the lineup was long so we wanted to see what’s the big deal. The packaging and store looks great and follows the general hip/unique theme of Kensington. Cupcakes taste alright, but at ~$15 for 6 it’s slightly overpriced.

After several weekends of sweat and tear, the deck is near completion!

Wait, this is the new BBQ we bought BEFORE our deck is 100% done.

Recently upgrade to Shaw Extreme-I

Before - Shaw regular high-speed

We bought a place in Tuscany, NW corner in Calgary. Potentially a lot of DIY project opportunities will be available. Busy summer!

A daemon is a program that runs in the background, enabling you to do other work in the foreground, and is independent of control from a terminal. Which daemons can you safely play with? Which should you leave running? A nice introduction to daemons.

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She passed away on the morning of December 29th, 2006 :(

Much of Linux system administration involves tediously combing through plain-text configuration files. Fortunately, Linux has a rich array of UNIX-derived data extraction utilities, including head, tail, grep, egrep, fgrep, cut, paste, join, awk, and more.

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This article introduces basic client-side networking using both core Python modules and the Twisted framework. For its example, I will show how to send, receive, and delete emails, and conduct Telnet sessions.

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A list of linux commands for common operations including: file searching, networking, directory navagation, etc.

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The article describes in a human language some of the powerful, yet very useful (even for total newbies) capabilities of OpenSSH, such as passwordless login, automatic execution of commands on a remote system or even mounting a remote folder using SSH.

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