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Sunday, 17 February 2008 |
The free Thunderbird email client was developed by Mozilla. It is a robust, a secure and an easy-to-use email client. Thunderbird is an open source application that makes it easy for developers to freely build extensions to enhance its features. Thunderbird is not only an email client, but also a great client to set up newsgroup and RSS folders to fetch latest news info.
It is so easy to setup Thunderbird on a desktop. Under Windows operating systems, it only requires at least 52 MB data space, 64 MB RAM and Pentium 500 MHz or greater, similar for Linux systems. But for Mac, it requires 200 MB drive space and 128 MB RAM and can be setup on Intel x86 or PowerPC. |
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Manipulate Columns in Text Files |
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Saturday, 09 February 2008 |
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Text files contain characters (ASCII characters) and some control characters. The control characters such as end-of-line, whitespace, and tab are used to organize data in the files. More info about text files can be found in Wikipedia page. This short article shows a quick and simple way to manipulate columns in a text file. |
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Database Backup with mysqldump |
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Thursday, 31 January 2008 |
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Mysqldump is a simple client used to backup MySQL databases or to transfer databases into another servers. It stores SQL statements to create tables and to import them. The client can also be used to create formatted files and generate XML files. |
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Setting Automated Tasks with Crontab |
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Thursday, 10 January 2008 |
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Cron deamon is a client that wakes up every minute and checks scheduled commands listed in the crontab file (cron table). The crontab file contains information about the time, date and command that needs to be executed at a specific time. For a Linux box, the cron info is usually stored at /var/spool/cron. |
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