CVS for subversion users

I've been using version control for a long time, but I haven't used CVS much since the first day I tried Subversion.

(Git seems great but isn't the same kind of drop-in upgrade that CVS to Subversion was)

Things I forgot

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Amazon MP3 Downloads for Linux

It's great that Amazon actually offer a version of thier MP3 downloader for Linux - just a shame that it doesn't work for many distributions.

Fortunately clamz is available 

It's a great little command line utility with a very forgetable name.

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Hard Drive Testing using smartmontools

Test the hard drive with

smartctl -t long /dev/hd?

This may take hours to run and will do so as a background process.

Once complete run the following to see results

smartctl -l selftest /dev/hd?

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