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This will seem really simple to those that know about these things, but hey I'm easily amused. Here is a snippet from an /etc/init.d script HTTPD=/httpd/bin/httpd PIDFILE=/httpd/logs/httpd.pid if pidof $HTTPD | tr ' ' '\n' | grep -w $(cat $PIDFILE); then return 0 fi...

Dreamhost to Rackspace So after a long time with Dreamhost. I've made the move to a Self Managed Cloud Server at Rackspace. Don't get me wrong Dreamhost has all the flexibility you would need for shared hosting but I was finding that to get the resources I needed for...

Just added a user to the Guests Local Group on a Windows 2003 Server and wondered why the Internet Explorer Homepage settings wouldn't stick. Doh... Remember this for next time jimmy.

Just checked Telstra smartphone upgrade page and discovered some bad news about my HTC Desire "HTC will no longer proceed with a mass-market Gingerbread update for Desire due to the memory requirements of Android 2.3" Reading elsewhere I heard that they had trouble...

Just discovered GEPIR the "Global Electronic Party Information Registry" You can enter a limited number of barcodes (it has a query request limit) and it may return the company that owns the barcode prefix. I say may because some of the barcodes I sampled didn't...

#!/bin/bash ### ### Sample background worker script ### for linuxquestions.org written ### by Florian Harbich (user doc.nice) ### ### Free for use or modification, even if ### useless in this variant... ### # to terminate the script # run "touch...