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Aptana 3 Rocks

Been trying to find a free (as in beer) development environment that is easy to use and configure with sensible defaults. Just downloaded Aptana 3 and after 2 days use. We have a winner. Things I like: Downloaded both Windows and Linux clients - Install was easy on...

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Viewing multi-page tiff files under Linux

I just used my HP Officejet Pro 8500A to scan a 2 page document to tiff format. It drops it into a samba share on my Fedora 16 box. Trying to open the tiff format scan on Linux and i could only see the first page. With the default viewer - which in my case is the...

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Perl Switch/Case Satement

for (@ARGV) { if (/^6\d{4}$/) { $item_code = $_; $action = 'load'; } elsif (/^stop$/) { $action = 'stop' ; } elsif (/^start$/) { $action = 'start'; } else { print "Default\n"; } } print "Item : " . $item_code . "\n"; print "Action : " . $action ....

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RES:23# I don’t know what it means either

A company named HSAjet has a CU (Control Unit) that drives some expensive print heads for carton labelling. In the documentation that is supplied with the Control Unit it specifies that you can communicate with it via RS232 and Ethernet. The Ethernet part is what I'm...

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ABA File Information

Every now and again a business has to change Banks and you are left to figure out what the ABA file format should be and what the different fields mean. Especially annoying is when you have set it up and have been running for years and the meaning has been lost over...

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Rackspace Cloud – Uptime

uptime 05:29:01 up 44 days, 4:54, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.03, 0.00 Since I went to a small Rackspace cloud server I was concerned whether it would be stable. I have only had the account for a couple of months but the uptime is consistent with my last reboot so...

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