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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...

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...

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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...

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...

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...