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hello everyone I'm Molly would welcome to the cnet mailbag the show where we read your feedback answer your questions and open all your sketchy snail mail actually I got a lot of good snail mail this week and none of it was sketchy like this wonderful card from Meggie who just wrote to say thank you to me for being an incredible role model Meggie this was the nicest letter and thank you very much for sending it also thanks to dave was sent a self-addressed stamped envelope so that he could get a sticker but also included two stamps in case someone else forgot their postage Dave you get an extra sticker an FYI everyone we are now out of stickers so don't send me your emails or stamps I'll let you know when I get more or when you can buy them in the meantime they have trickled out into the world here's an example of one in the wild all right now for some kudos for jason howell our podcast producer here at seen it Jim rights hey Jason just got a look at the new podcast central page and it looks much better than before not as cluttered download speeds have improved which I got to say was far more important thanks know you've been taking a lot of crap because of slow downloads and other technical issues that you've had no control over so you should also get the much deserved compliments when you fix the problems Jim you are so right about that and yes Sean echoes all our feelings when he says I just want to say I love the new podcast central thank you smiley face the redesign is finally live and you can actually find things and see things on the page and it looks so beautiful Jason deserves a major fruit basket for pushing that sucker through okay and now for a little geek mail aankhen Ireland had a little note on her quick tip about killing stubborn processes on the Mac he says you're teaching people how to use Linux through under the guise of Macintosh hilarious I remember being taught the same thing when I ran into problems on my first dubu to box next teach them how to add a uuid to fstab so the drive will remount after a crash LOL and fred hag writes about the same tip tech pronunciation is usually pretty good on cnet TV IE i rarely notice mistakes however there have been three to five problems in the last weeks what finally took me to the point of providing feedback was Wilson tangs stop stubborn programs on a Mac quick tip he pronounced pseudo as pseudo similar to the martial art of judo rather than sudu pronunciation mistakes like this focus the audience attention on the fact that the personalities are not knowledgeable and simply reading copy I am sure there is not much time to check such things but there should be some mechanism for this I'm actually Fred hag as we all know pseudo stands for super user do and so I can totally understand why you would have to pronounce it soo do and in fact it is officially pronounced soo do but wikipedia notes that it is commonly also pronounced pseudo and in fact there is a raging debate in the open source community about the proper pronunciation as evidenced by multiple heated forum threads but thank you for noticing and before we go one final bit of crazy mail for Wilson dear Wilson tang I think your name rhymes with Bureau Wang Scarlett O'Hara I mean that's true it does rhyme with that so okay that's it for this week send me your questions and comments email me at mailbag at cnet com or send your snail mail 2 235 second street san francisco california 94 105 thank you for watching everyone