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Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a compatibility layer for running Linuxbinary executables (in ELF format) natively on Windows 10. Microsoft and Canonical partnered together to enable a genuine UbuntuTrusty Tahr image to be downloaded and extracted to the user’s local machine, and for the tools and utilities contained within that image to run natively on top of the WSL.

Some people may say that we’re at step four:

  1. First they ignore you,
  2. Then they laugh at you,
  3. Then they fight you,
  4. Then you win.

I’m not that sure. The once-dark-knight doesn’t look that dangerous these days. The evil overlord is now another.

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Dear VMWare, why do you keep telling me that my newly registered and freshly activated account is inactive?

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Activate Your My VMware Account

You must activate your My Vmware account before you can log in. To activate your account, open the confirmation email sent when you registered for your account and click the link in the email.

If you have already activated your account and think you may have received this page in error, click Back to log in again or close your browser and try again.

I can tolerate being forced to use a couple of times your proprietary software – paid by my employer. I also acknowledge that it’s not the latest release.

Just let me tell you that finding «vSphere Remote Command Line» for GNU/Linux is just a pain, as the link you provided into your own ESXi 4 is hopelessly broken.

Mildly put using your website is a severely suboptimal experience.

Greetings.

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Embarrassingly small

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Those USB memory sticks are becoming embarrassingly small. I bought this three days ago and I have been looking into my pouches at least five times a day, fearing I’ve lost it

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Microsoft Says It’s in Love With Linux. Now It’s Finally Proving It | WIRED

http://www.wired.com/2016/06/microsofts-open-source-love-affair-reaches-new-heights/ OK, wired is not such a prestigious source for an hacker but this means that’s it has really reached prime time. Microsoft has really released it as free-as-in-freedom software. This time is for real. And even people like me who has often cried at “timeo Danaos et dona ferentes” shall acknowledge that it can’t…

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Debianisms

I was going to enable mod_rewrite on the new work box, discovering that CentOS doesn’t have a2enmod. So reading apache 2.2 – CentOS“-bash: a2enmod: command not found” – from Server Fault I discovered that a2enmod is a debianism, on CentOS you will need to do this manually. Please refer to the Apache documentation to find…

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