Mikel

Mountain View, CA

http://mikelward.com

Computer guy from Australia now living in the US.

Part sysadmin, part developer, part web developer.

My name is pronounced like "Michael".

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When should I not kill -9 a process?

linux command-line kill process-management asked Mar 9, 2011 at 10:13

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29 votes

Make Ctrl+C=copy and Ctrl+Shift+C=interrupt in VSCode terminal

vscode copy-paste asked Jul 22, 2017 at 17:48

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Windows Server 2008 install: wpeinit -unattend:unattend.xml does nothing

windows-server-2008 installation unattended winpe asked Aug 19, 2009 at 2:02

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