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Cool women that I learned about today
There's a story on slashdot today about Top Ten Geek Girls. The original list is pretty silly (Paris Hilton?) (it does have some good names there too, though). But by reading the comments, I learned about the following pretty cool women:
And then, of course we have Jocelyn Bell.
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Tetrapyloctomy
I recently wrote a shell script to extract the contents of an archive. The script is a front-end to tar, gzip, bzip, unzip etc., and does the Right Thing based upon the file's extension. So, now I don't have to worry about the exact command to see the contents of an archive or to extract it. I can do
xtract -l to see the list of files in an ( Read more... )
