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SVN does not have a stash (or shelve) functionality, but there is always a way around

It is not trivial to set up Webex to work on modern Ubuntu. This post recaps the steps I made to make it work

If you ever need to extract an OLE document from within a Microsoft Office document

There is a big push in the Linux community to adopt a new init system. And it appears that the majority of people a leaning towards systemd. I have something to say about it.

Yesterday I was fighting a bug which should have never existed in the first place

It is possible to change JVM command line flag values in runtime. With just a bit of Unsafe magic, of course.

I was preparing a presentation on git I am about to deliver to a group of bioscientists. While doing so I learned couple of things myself. Here are the bits and pieces

All the years working in Linux I did not know how to debug in Linux. GDB is simply too scary for me... And now I needed to debug R. And you know what, it is that simple:

sudo apt-get install nemiver
./R -d nemiver

And that's it!

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