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Personal CoLo registry

If you’ve ever toyed with the idea of having your own server, Paul Vixie maintains a very useful list of CoLo providers that are well suited to personal hosting. The page also details some of the pitfalls and things to bear in mind before you go ahead and start running your own box.

rm -rf &*%$^”!

Having quite a lot of mp3s with Kanji filenames, this article (part 1part 2) on dealing with files that have unusual characters seems particularly relevant. It also teaches you some of the hairy details of how your shell, ls, locale and your filesystem interact (or don’t).

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