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The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process
Annoying problem "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process" trying to delete a directory. Didn't want to reboot because I was running a VMWare VM at the time and well real operating systems don't make you reboot every time...
Windows 7zip Fails to Extract a Tar Archive created on Linux
Just had an error in Windows 7-Zip 4.6.5 trying to extract a Linux tar archive. A reasonably large tar archive of 3.76 GB. Got this error: So fell back to using Cygwin Using tar -tf archive.tar allowed me to list the contents of the archive just fine. But attempting...
Australian Online Computer Component Sellers
www.staticice.com.au www.megabuy.com.au www.auspcmarket.com.au www.onlinecomputer.com.au www.eyo.com.au - Based at chipping norton. Reasonably easy to navigate their website. I have purchased 2 or three boxes from them. Found them reliable....
Secure your .htaccess files
Recently discovered an old Joomla website that had been hacked by a remote exploit which changed the contents of .htaccess and redirected the connecting clients away to malicious sites. I don't know how they managed it but I thought that if .htaccess wasn't writeable...
Free GPL3 Licensed CD/DVD Burning Application for Windows
I haven't tried this but don't want to forget about it: http://infrarecorder.org/ You can also use ISORecorder which works well. Not sure of the license on this program. However the website says "Since the very beginning ISO Recorder has been a free tool (for personal...
Gnome-shell or How to make Ubuntu look like an iPhone
Just had a play with the new Gnome 3 gnome-shell. On Ubuntu 10.04: apt-get install gnome-shell gnome-shell --replace To revert back to the default Ubuntu Window Manager metacity --replace (You may have to also run) gnome-panel & Anyway check it out... I can't wait...
