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Archive for May, 2004

Black Eyed Peas Punk Punk’d

Opinions aside of their last piece of crap album, Elephunk, I think the Black Eyed Peas paid the cast of Punk’d a well deserved ass beating.

Problem when Tarballing in FreeBSD

I decided it was time to upgrade my Gallery software again, and in the process of backing it up, I ran into a strange error which I couldn’t figure out:

bash-2.04# tar -cz gallery > gallery-backup.tar.gz
tar (child): can’t open archive /dev/rsa0 : Device not configured
Broken pipe

Turns out the correct way to use Tar in this situation [...]

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