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I strongly appreciate a single-application single-tasking environment, because it forces you into a totally different mindset from the flurry of activity and noise one always has on an everyday “multitasking” computing environment these days.  But since most of my day is spent completely surrounded by multiple applications all vying for my attention, I’ve come to expect to be able to swap my attention around whenever I want.

But there are situations and applications which explicitly deny multitasking.

Seriously.

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https://github.com/brandt/symlinks

Mark Lord’s ‘symlinks’ utility.

Scans directories for symbolic links, and identifies dangling, relative, absolute, messy, and other_fs links. Can optionally change absolute links to relative within a given filesystem. Recommended for use by anyone developing and/or maintaining a Linux FTP site or distribution or CD-ROM.

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https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996

update: Google Advertising Opt-Out add-on: updated for Firefox 3.5[unknown prefix: Google Advertising Opt-Out add-on]

Did you know about this? I didn’t.  Thanks to some random surfing and an EFF post, I just learned of it.

With this browser plugin you can permanently opt out of the DoubleClick cookie, which is an advertising cookie that Google uses. The plugin lets you keep your opt-out status for this browser even when you clear all cookies.

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