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Opening the Gifts Delayed by the Blizzard in Colorado

Anyone using the Qt 3.x libraries have probably run into the occasional oddity, however what I’ve discovered is a little too odd to not mention. When dealing with combo boxes, you generally find helper functions that provide accessors / modifiers to the currently selected item in the combo box. In the 3.x Qt [...]

Tonight on Nightline, we aired a report regarding persons unknowingly taking more than recommended doses of pain medications, by means of “combination drugs”. After this report the government panel investigated this issue further, and has recommended that every American be provided with a personal “hand holder”. This “hand holder” would then attempt to [...]

Many times I have found myself in need of a one line command involving ‘find ./ | xargs’, however every now and then I run into an instance where the files I’m looking at have spaces in them. Anyone who has tried this combination of commands find the result to be quite broken and disappointing. [...]