Recently I set-up a machine in my closet to act as a backup server. One of it’s jobs is to download via pop3 all the email from our Gmail accounts just in case the cloud goes puf . For this job I used fetchmail to fetch the emails to local users on the...
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Sometimes is needed to have all files in a folder in the same case. Here’s a small script to rename all files in the folder to lower case:
for i in *; do mv $i `echo $i | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]`; done
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I’m updating a site for a client that only has file access to his hosting account via a php file manager (extPlorer for Joomla to be precise). He needed uploaded a few flash videos (in excess of 15 Mb each) but extPlorer stated that the file limit for php was set to 8 Mb.
I...
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Sometimes it’s easier to just drop to the command line then browse for fancy tools like phpMyAdmin. This is useful, especially for quick jobs.
mysqldump -u user -ppassword your_database > database_backup.sql
Of course you need to replace:
user – mysql username
password – the password
your_database – the database you want to backup
Adding -h host.domain.com would allow to backup...
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As you know Linux does not use drive letters like Windows does. All files are organized under a big tree hierarchy. We use the mount command to mount partitions and this is the same command used to mount remote windows partition or windows shares.
Please note that you’ll need to know the following:
Windows username and...
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I tried running Windows 7 on a machine that had a Creative Sound Blaster Live 5.1 card inside. Since the 5.1 is a decent card I see no reason to replace it just because windows 7 came along. Please note that these unofficial updated drivers also bring along Windows 64 bit support. A quick...
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The command ls can be made to show directories and permission but it will not display directory sizes. Then it’s time for other commands. For example on my hosting account there is no file manager installed and evidently x and kde is missing too so, to find out directory sizes I can use the...
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This is something useful: code to wake up a machine on lan using python. Since python is available on most devices now (symbian, maeom, windows, linux and so on) it’s pretty usefull. So, if you have machines that you want to be able to start this is the code to do it. I found...
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Thinking of a memory upgrade? An operating system upgrade? Here’s a table from msdn stating the limits imposed by 32 and 64 bit editions of various Windows versions.
Physical Memory Limits: Windows 7
The following table specifies the limits on physical memory for Windows 7.
Version
Limit in 32-bit Windows
Limit in 64-bit Windows
Windows 7 Ultimate
4 GB
192 GB
Windows 7 Enterprise
4 GB
192 GB
Windows 7 Professional
4...
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If you run an online business like an e-store or something similar you might want to show a button showing if your are available to chat via Yahoo Messenger.
This is a fairly easy job to do. All you have to do is to show this code somewhere on your site:
<a href="ymsgr:sendIM?YOUR_YM_ID">
<img src="http://opi.yahoo.com/online?u=YOUR_YM_ID&m=g&t=1" border="0" alt=""...
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