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Comment Re:Listing directory contents without the ls comma (Score 1) 2362

by penguin king (#25650117) Attached to: (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks?
Although it won't totally work when your systems falling down around your ears, running out of memory etc... I have been in situations where I've seen people with an app hemorrhaging memory like nothing else watching it in top, then they close top, and kill the process. Sure I did this for a while before I played round with top, and found you can do all within top.

Also I find if you're stuck with an X app dying and it's taking horrendously long for ps or whatever to crank up, xkill can be useful, assuming you've got a terminal open right?
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Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth 235

Posted by Soulskill from the no-cake-jokes-allowed dept.
MaxwellEdison writes "Scientists have discovered evidence of magnetic portals connecting the Earth and the Sun every 8 minutes. 'Several speakers at the Workshop have outlined how FTEs form: On the dayside of Earth (the side closest to the sun), Earth's magnetic field presses against the sun's magnetic field. Approximately every eight minutes, the two fields briefly merge or "reconnect," forming a portal through which particles can flow. The portal takes the form of a magnetic cylinder about as wide as Earth. The European Space Agency's fleet of four Cluster spacecraft and NASA's five THEMIS probes have flown through and surrounded these cylinders, measuring their dimensions and sensing the particles that shoot through.'"
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Using Old Medications to Defeat Tuberculosis 70

Posted by Zonk from the old-sword-new-troll dept.
TastesLikeCoughSyrup writes "Antibiotic resistant tuberculosis is spreading like wildfire in the developing world. While many researchers are looking for new drugs to combat the disease, those efforts could take years to bear fruit. Meanwhile, two scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have learned how the drug clavulanate can destroy the defenses of tuberculosis, making it vulnerable to medications in the penicillin family. The best part: it has already been approved by the FDA so doctors can start using it immediately."

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