If you’ve ever had the inclination to look up information using the shell prompt, the Command-Line Fu site explains how to query Wikipedia using the built-in dig utility.

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On Friday 31 July 2009, Mozilla Firefox was downloaded for the one billionth time since its initial v1.0 release in 2004. (One billion is one-thousand million. Any version of the full installer is counted as ‘one’ download. Automatic updates are not included in the figure.)

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If you have staff, subcontractors or co-workers you manage, keeping up the team morale is vital. How you manage others will determine how each member of the team will function together, whether or not team members will respect each other, and the level of excitement that’s generated about work.

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If you’ve spent anytime at all exploring sites like Flickr, I’m sure you’ve notice a good many photographs that have a certain “vintage” look to them, a patina if you will. There are many variations to this theme, ranging from simple toning to full blown distressing of the photograph complete with film like grain or scratches and surface variation resembling an old or imperfect photo. Up till now you might have thought that achieving this look was difficult and time consuming, but in fact it is remarkably easy, and it is done using textures.

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