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An urban legend in Korea states that running an electric fan at night can kill you.
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Dreams are not random machinations of the unconscious.
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Dreams are a theater of the emotions, where we playout the day's dramas that were left "to be continued."
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As GNU/Linux system administrators, we are often confronted with adding user accounts on the system, deleting user accounts, and modifying existing user accounts. At times, this can be a time consuming process. Further, keepin... | web |
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You'd know the face of your Valentine anywhere--those twinkling eyes and crooked smile are only two of the features that help you pick out your one-and-only from the faces in the crowd. Although a sweet voice and special scent may complete the package, humans depend largely on vision ... | web |
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Articles Are Like Micro Books. Why Cannot They Be Sold?
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Writing articles for money is regarded to be a negative trend. Many people think that those who write articles for money sell their conscience. Is it so? Is it so bad?
Negative features of writing articles for ... | web |
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A task in my homework assignment asks me to create a virtual file system, mount it, and perform some operations on it.
I am supposed to create a file of 10 MB whose bits are all set to 0, format it as ext3 and mount it. This is how I've done that:
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