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2011 Technology Convergence Conference to Tackle the Latest Trends in Data Center Monitoring

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Piriform: free software for cleaning and optimising Windows

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Windows Live Essentials: a presentation of free programs

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Gardening Mama

With the nice spring days now here, Mama has left the kitchen. The most famous chef on the DS has decided to get some fresh air working in the garden. After having taken control of the knives, fry pans and mixers, she has now got her hands on the ...

Review published on the June 2nd, 2009 - 3:09 AM ET

Overview of Instant Messaging

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See the last time a program was run

Know the date and time of the last execution of a program.

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Gorant Chocolatier Relates Company’s Sweet Success Using SYSPRO ERP

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How to calculate multiple conditions?

Hi everyone, This is a fairly new concept to me so I hope you can help. I have columns of data, a sample is below and I wish to work out somethin similar to this: if Column A = Success AND B = Success AND C=Success then Make column say ...

Message posted on the September 4th, 2012 - 11:01 AM ET

How to write a machine-readable debian/copyright file?

Hi everybody, I began to study the machine-readable debian/copyright file format [1], with the plan to adopt it for my (current and future) packages. [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ I have a question, though. ...

Message posted on the August 27th, 2012 - 6:00 PM ET

Bug#683814: No obvious how to start session-properties / not easily discoverable

Package: gnome-session-bin Version: 3.4.2.1-1 Severity: important File: /usr/bin/gnome-session-properties gnome-control-center no longer ships a panel for managing the (XDG) autostart programs. While we do have gnome-session-properties for that, no ...

Message posted on the August 4th, 2012 - 7:10 AM ET

How to tell if a disk needs fsck ...

... from a script. I'd like my backup script to know if the exchangeable disk I've just inserted is overdue an fsck. Is there any way to do that from a shell script, other than grepping the kernel syslog? Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 63rd day of ...

Message posted on the July 28th, 2012 - 3:09 PM ET

how to retrieve the actual arguments being used in the sendmail daemon

On Linux, ps -ef |grep sendmail, it returns something like this: root 1920 1 0 10:13 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: accepting connections smmsp 19211 1 0 10:13 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: Queue runner@01:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue I ...

Message posted on the July 22nd, 2012 - 11:45 PM ET

How to map ata_link to physical link and ata_port to physical port

Hi hackers, In our internal usage, we want to map the disk in system like sd{a,b,c} to physical disk slot. When the disk is attached to LSI HBA card, we find that we can rely on the phy attribute of the disk to find the slot since this attribute ...

Message posted on the July 15th, 2012 - 11:20 PM ET

Bug#676695: pkg-config data of lua packages -- how it should be fixed

Hi, This makes other lua linking program to fail to build under wheezy. Bad. I will mark this important. I see the same problem using this -dev package. Specifically, you see problem under "set -x" as: $ gcc -c dump.c `pkg-config ...

Message posted on the July 8th, 2012 - 9:50 AM ET