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Get Weather Forecasts in Your RSS Reader from AccuWeather

9:00AM September 14, 2007 | Adam Pash

Popular weather web site AccuWeather’s RSS Center builds RSS feeds of your local weather so you can get your latest weather forecasts delivered to your RSS reader. It’s nothing big, but if you live in your newsreader, this is one more bit of info you can get directly in your news digest. These one-off information-only RSS feeds—like sports scores or severe weather warnings—are great utilitarian additions to your newsreader.

RSS Center [AccuWeather via AppScout]

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How Linus Torvalds deals with criticism

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8:02AM September 14, 2007 | Sarah Stokely

For all its ‘the best code wins’ meritocracy ethos, developers also need to be able to communicate and get their point of view across. Opinions will always differ on the best way to do things, and you and your work will be critiqued. Here’s an interesting article from Linux.com which talks to Linus Torvalds about dealing with conflict and differing opinions on code development.

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Determine File Types from the Terminal

1:00AM September 6, 2007 | Kyle Pott

Mac/Linux users: You can use the file filename terminal command to quickly identify file information. Occasionally you will come across files that have an incorrect or missing file extension. As shown above, the file command analyses the file given as an argument and displays details about the file. This command is especially useful when it comes to managing large libraries of music, images and video. If you’re scared of the terminal foo, you can obtain file extension information from the web, too. Any Windows users know the equivalent Command Prompt syntax? Share in the comments.

Determine File Type [A Linux Sysad Blog]

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