My boss has mentioned a big opportunity coming up. He's mentioned it on more than one ocassion, and he has dropped "subtle" hints ("Jon, <VP of my dept> mentioned that he needed a name for an internal candidate to put in charge of a new team, and you were the first one that came to mind") to clue me in that I should be preparing for a new role. The promotion would require travel, involve a very serious increase in responsibility and stress, and a just-as-serious pay increase....

Managed to scrape enough parts together, to build another p1 computer. This time I installed tinycore instead of openbsd. .

More (Generic) Tools

Behind the scenes, some of the more complex tools are getting incorporated into lq-qt-mc2. Should have an upload in a day or two. lq-find will kock your socks off.. now tuned up and ready for the big time. :-) v. 3.0.14 coming soon.

Today's Features

• Create a shortcut with a shortcut icon, directories - OK!
• Another new.<utility> using the mc2 extras demo (env-replace)
• Revisiting the utility to create a self extractor using base64

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Programmers are universally familiar with the challenges of dealing with unwanted side effects in IO operations. Few are aware, however, that the Haskell programming language provides a very straightforward approach to dealing with this problem, packaged in a convenient module:

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/...RealWorld.html

The solution involves making available a full existential state as a retrievable value. This value...

About the commandline

Today's features:

• Why the commandline rocks and GUI apps have rocks in their heads at times.

[Note for KDE users: Konqueror has a nice konsole terminal that can be opened with F4. It's much MUCH better than Dolphin, if you're a programmer. See recent blog including 'launch' and shell-exec if you have trouble executing these files when you click on them or press ENTER.]

It's especially clear in linux (where the core utilities and other...