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The Rackspace Cloud – My Instance Uptime

uptime 00:09:19 up 241 days, 21:10, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 Nice to see that the infrastructure Rackspace is running is solid enough to give 241 days of uptime. I wish I could have a tour of the data centre and have a look at how it's done...

Scribus 1.4.1 on Windows 7 x64

I didn't know if you needed x32 bit ghostscript even though it was running on a x64 OS. I'm here to report that it works with the 64 bit version of GhostScript. I just went into File ==> Preferences... ==> External Tools and entered the path "C:\Program...

Use kid3 to edit WMA tags

If you have a bunch of WMA files that don't have the correct meta-data associated with them and therefore don't show up correctly in Rhthymbox. To edit the tags kid3 does the job well. In Fedora just: yum install kid3 done.  

A WORKING MYSQL QUERY SELF TABLE JOIN

I have a table holding the names of `items` to be loaned out mysql> select * from items; +----+-------+ | id | name | +----+-------+ | 1 | item1 | | 2 | item2 | | 3 | item3 | | 4 | item4 | | 5 | item5 | +----+-------+ 5 rows in set (0.00 sec) I have another...