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"The Echo Maker" novel by Richard Powers

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The story

Richard Powers's novel, The Echo Maker (2006), tells the story of Mark Schluter, a young man of 27 who is nearly killed in an accident with his truck. He recovers but seems to be suffering from Capgras, a condition in which the patient believes that some of his loved ones have been replaced by doubles. Mark thinks his sister Karin has been replaced by someone who looks exactly like Karin, but he is certain she is only a robot or a stand-in. He calls her Kopy Karin and Karbon Karin. The evolution of the syndrome is far from positive. The condition seems to spread. Mark begins to believe it is not just Karin who has been replaced. His dog, his house, his old town and some of his best friends all seem to be replaced by stand ins.

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Issue : INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel [SOLVED] !!

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Linux
Sys Administration

Issue : INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel

This is one of the issues i had for several months, i couldn't find any specific information about it and never had time to trace it in order to find a solution. But today i managed to fix it by reading many threads and articles and then tracing it from the beginning , since i'm not the only one with this problem i decided to share it.

I used CentOS 5.3 for this tutorial , but it might be still useful even if you're using a Debian based distribution.

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Most of my posts are related to Linux , But what is linux?!

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As you might have already noticed most of my blog posts and tweets are related to Linux. Unfortunately not everyone knows about Linux so i guess it's time to introduce it.

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CentOS/RHEL5 does not detect some onboard network cards +Videos

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Linux
Sys Administration

CentOS's kernel is a very old kernel comparing to many other distributions. The reason is stability but some times it gets annoying.

For example today i wanted to upgrade CentOS 5.2 server at work to 5.3. to make this process as trouble free as possible i cloned the server into another computer but once it booted , i noticed that it doesn't detect new computer's on board network card! and it was impossible to do the upgrade without Internet.

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Take online typing courses and improve your typing speed

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typingweb.com is a website for learning typing and getting certification, its interface is really good and user friendly and it's also a web application which means that you don't need to install anything on your computer, the only thing you need is a web browser.

The certification is not free, about $40. So if you don't want to become a typist it does not worth it, and if you want to become one then make sure that the certification is creditable and accepatable by employers.

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Google acquires reCaptcha

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I'm using reCaptcha on my website, and it's a very feature rich and easy to use captcha. and i just noticed that Google is accurring reCaptcha, they want to use it to index old books and newspapers which are difficult to read by computer.

What does that mean?

It means that whenver you enter the text version of the captcha you're seeing , you're actually also helping Google to convert books into text for free!

Read the whole story...

 

 

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My site's new update

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I've upload a new version of my website yesterday , it has several new features :

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How to dump all MySQL databases into indivisual files at once

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I had to move 264 databases from one Linux server (Fedora) to another (CentOS), hard copying /var/lib/mysql wasn't a good idea because version of two MySQL databases were different and i had to repair all the tables after move so i decided to write a very short and usefull bash script.

It dumps all the databases but each database into a different file :

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Old comments , Old memories

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I managed to review, approve, cleanup all the old comments today. It was very inspiring reading visitors' and friends' opinion about me , my (old) website and my posts after all this years. Unfortunately many of my friend's blogs are no longer available due to the Persianblog's disappearance, wish if i could find them again.

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My Site, Twitter & Facebook

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I can now update both Twitter and Facebook through pidgin at once. and also my website is also connected to twitter.
So basically :
Twitter -> My Site
My Site -> Twitter -> Facebook (I'm about to test this once right now)
Pidigin -> Twitter -> Facebook

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