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Filelight and Boabab or How to pie chart your disk usage
filelight: kde application gives a really cool overview of how much and where you are consuming disk space. boabab: gnome/gtk application
Opening WPS files on Windows and Linux without Microsoft Office
Microsoft Works (wps) Documents aren't recognized by the native OpenOffice.org version of OpenOffice. Update: Ubuntu has a libwps package that provides the functions to convert wps files and the Ubuntu version of OpenOffice will open a WPS natively (thanks to Andrew...
IPSec Compliant Gateway
I am currently investigating setting up a connection with the following features: Linux 2.6.x Base System IPSec Compliant Gateway NAT on the Gateway to hide internal addresses from the remote network http://www.sherman.ca/archives/2004/11/21/linux-26-ipsec-vpns/...
Deleted binary causes No such file or directory error in bash
The scenario: Your path environment is similar to "/home/user/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games" You have a binary in your path such as /home/user/bin/putty which you delete hoping to use the same binary further down the path...
The Linux find command
I'm putting this here so I can recall it for later The following snippet finds all files where the File's data was last modified more than 2 days ago and run the move command on each file to move them to the specified directory. find -mtime +2 -type f -print -exec mv...
wxWidgets using wxPerl and wxGlade
When it comes to getting user input and performing an action in a Windows environment there are several convenient options: You can purchase a Microsoft development environment for several thousand dollars such as Visual Studio (or whatever is the latest name for it)....