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1. Stephen Harris says

   July 30, 2007 at 12:57 pm

   For the ‘tar’ issue, ‘GNU tar’ automatically strips off leading / characters

   $ tar cvf XX.tar /etc/motd
   a /etc/motd 1K
   $ tar tf XX.tar
   /etc/motd
   $ gtar xvf XX.tar
   gtar: Record size = 5 blocks
   /etc/motd
   gtar: Removing leading `/' from absolute path names in the archive
   $ diff etc/motd /etc/motd
   $ 

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2. Dossy says

   July 30, 2007 at 11:30 pm

   Stephen: Oh, I know this about GNU tar, but sometimes I end up working on a system that isn’t GNU-based and I don’t want to find and/or compile a GNU tar binary for it. Knowing how to use “pax” can be useful even when you do have GNU tar–being able to rewrite paths as part of the extraction phase can be useful at times.

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3. Stephen Harris says

   July 31, 2007 at 11:54 am

   *grump* why is it that none of those small computers have DVI or HDMI output? Makes ’em useless for a HD media center device. I’d rather get a PC rather than a Mac Mini (I don’t have any Macs at home and don’t want to support yet another OS) but… *sigh*

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4. Dossy says

   July 31, 2007 at 6:57 pm

   Stephen: Indeed, what would make those tiny PCs perfect is a decent graphics chipset and both DVI (digital) and VGA (analog) outputs. It is the one area that the Mac Mini still has an edge over the tiny PCs.

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