Dell sent me another one of their catalogs recently, which included this entry. You can get Windows Vista, or a “bonus” of an Windows XP Professional downgrade. I have nothing left to add.

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The other day, at work, we were working on setting up an automated qurk-and-dirty back up for some files from one Linux box to another. The link was a long distance one (from a data center in Dallas to our office in Anchorage). The solution was simple and elegant:

On …

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