30 Jul 2010
How grep got it's name

I didn't know that!

It all starts back with 'ed', the original unix editor. ed was a command-line editor that worked identically to the colon-commands in vi and vim - in fact, you can press Q to get into ed mode (then type vi to get back into vim).

(link) [Giant Robots]

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An American Stasi?

Not only are these things obnoxious violations of our rights, they're positively cheap on the employees, too.

The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette reported on July 25 that “there are 72 fusion centers around the nation, analyzing and disseminating data and information of all kinds. That is one for every state and others for large urban cities.” What is a fusion center?

(link) [The Freeman]

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