Aurelio Zen is the star of a series of detective novels by Michael Dibdin. Rufus Sewell and the BBC bring him to life in the first movie they made of the series.
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One of the genuine classics of the genre, re-reading Larry Niven's very famous book.
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For my own use, an introduction to Ansible.
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Tarantino's World War II epic fantasy of revenge - there's not really any other way to say it.
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VirtualBox offers a LOT of interesting and powerful networking options - and I've only begun to scratch the surface.
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I used to use the Network File System (NFS) between local machines a lot years ago, but it's been a long time and I'm having to relearn it. This is mostly a tutorial for myself.
read moreExperiences with Ubuntu Core 14.04
Ubuntu Core is a stripped version of the standard Ubuntu meant for servers and cloud-based machines. Stripped Debian works a LOT better.
read more'Seventh Son' - Movie Review
A review of "Seventh Son," a movie that sat on the shelf for a year or two because of distribution problems - but there are structural and acting problems as well.
read moreLinux host - Linux guest Sound in VirtualBox
Sound from Linux guest operating systems when VirtualBox is running on a Linux host is proving particularly elusive.
read moreSliTaz 5.0RC3 'Cooking' - Review
Still counting the steps forward and the steps back on the latest SliTaz release candidate ...
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