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I call this sshtomany:

#!/bin/bash

cmd=”$*”
cmd=”${cmd/#* . /}”
[ "$cmd" = "$*" ] && echo “Usage: $0 [HOSTS] . [COMMAND]” && exit 127

while [ "$1" != . ] && ssh $1 -vt $cmd ; do
echo Success at “$1″
shift
done

clusterssh and its emacs equivalent are quite handy if you want to execute commands simultaneously and fairly [...]

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Last week, I wondered about Green or Pirate Party Membership and got some good comments. Thanks to all for those. There seemed a slim leaning towards the Greens and a good point made that “Pirate Party” is a very bad name in a coastal area like mine. I’ve ranted …

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Advertisers try to “get ‘em young” to get them buying their wares from an early age. So why don’t we advertise freedom at young people more? The younger we make them aware of freedom, the more time they’ll spend defending that freedom from Big Media, the surveillance state and other threats, hopefully.
Of course, [...]

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Cooperators are spoiled for choice in the UK because all the major parties say nice things about cooperatives and there’s even the Cooperative Party, but a lot of us who take a sharing view to software (usually Free and Open Source Software) are concerned by the attitudes of the Top …

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The monthly board meeting of Software in the Public Interest will take place on irc.oftc.net #spi tonight (Wed 19 August) at 20:00 UTC. The meeting announcement was posted and the main business is selecting the officers after the SPI Voting (won by Michael Schultheiss and Jonathan McDowell), as well as a report about OSUNIX’s [...]

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