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		<title>Securely deleting files</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 19:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I needed to switch cellphones, and given that my cell&#8217;s SD card had sensitive data, just formatting the card wasn&#8217;t sufficient &#8212; it&#8217;s trivial to recover files from high-level-formatted FAT file system. I present to you the world&#8217;s most dangerous &#8230; <a href="http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/securely-deleting-files-1057.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>HOWTO: simulate the cron environment</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[While banging my head on RVM + Rails 3 + crontabs, it became clear that I needed the cron environment in an interactive shell. It&#8217;s not hard: sudo su env -i /bin/sh If your SHELL in your crontab is /bin/bash: &#8230; <a href="http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/howto-simulate-the-cron-environment-1018.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>HOWTO: Mount your USB hard drives at boot time on Ubuntu</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got a number of external USB hard drives connected to my ubuntu server that need to mount to a predictable directory. When you log into Gnome, the desktop environment does it&#8217;s nifty thing and mounts any drive you&#8217;ve got &#8230; <a href="http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/howto-mount-your-usb-hard-drives-at-boot-time-on-ubuntu-920.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Set up JAVA_HOME to track Java Preferences.app on Mac OS X</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mac OS X&#8217;s Java Preferences.app has a pane for switching between versions of the JDK, but I just found out from a coworker (thanks, Mike!) that you can make your shell match that preference easily &#8212; just add this to &#8230; <a href="http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/set-up-java_home-to-track-java-preferences-app-on-mac-os-x-847.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Make &#8220;ps -ef&#8221; work in a shell on Mac OS X</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re used to SunOS or BSD, you&#8217;ll be at home with Mac OS X&#8217;s &#8220;ps -aux&#8221; to get a process list from a shell prompt. If you&#8217;ve been using any other recent unix, though, your fingers will want to &#8230; <a href="http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/make-ps-ef-work-on-mac-os-x-123.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ant bash completion on Mac OS X</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[bash will do tab-completion for ant targets on Debian/Ubuntu boxes out-of-the-box. If you haven&#8217;t upgraded lately, you may need to: sudo apt-get install bash-completion On Mac OS X, it needs a bit of massaging. First install the macports version of &#8230; <a href="http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/ant-bash-completion-on-mac-os-x-43.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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