I’ve been using version control for a long time, but I haven’t used CVS much since the first day I tried Subversion.

(Git seems great but isn’t the same kind of drop-in upgrade that CVS to Subversion was)

Things I forgot

It’s great that Amazon actually offer a version of their MP3 downloader for Linux - just a shame that it doesn’t work for many distributions.

Fortunately clamz is available

It’s a great little command line utility with a very forgettable name.

Test the hard drive with

smartctl -t long /dev/hd?

This may take hours to run and will do so as a background process.