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Is your Chrome bigger than mine? How Chrome ate 21GB of storage

I've been playing with the macOS Sierra Golden Master for a few days and ran into the new storage optimization app that is now included in macOS. It lead me to realise that Chrome was using 21GB of SSH space!

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trafshow : Display current network traffic

trafshow is a simple little program that displays the current traffic on a network interface.

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Make OSX's top behave like Linux's top

OSX's "top" program doesn't quite behave like its Linux counterpart out of the box. For me, the two biggest problems are that processes aren't sorted by CPU usage and the top program itself uses 10% of the CPU because it calculates all sorts of statistics about memory and shared library usage that I personally don't care about.

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pfSense : a software alternative to your old router/firewall

My old D-Link router, like pretty much every other router I've ever owned, wasn't very reliable in some way and so I was looking for open-source alternative firmwares like Tomato to flash it with. With the clear lack of effort put into the official firmwares, I thought it couldn't hurt to try. Unfortunately, my router wasn't supported by any third party firmware.

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Google Trends

Je suis tombé sur un outil très intéressant de Google Labs hier: Google Trends.

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Interesting addition to unicode

Klignon was just added to unicode!

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