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99% and 99.9% uptime are a long way apart

If I was supplying you IT services and I said to you. "Your system will be available 99% of the time!" You may be tempted to think. Wow 99% is great. But lets do the maths. 361.4 / 365 x 100 = 99.0% So despite being up for 361.4 days a year you can have a 3 days and...

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gnucash 2.3.3 compile

Ubuntu 9.04 sudo apt-get build-dep gnucash sudo apt-get install libwebkit-dev sudo apt-get install libdbi0-dev sudo apt-get install intltool sudo apt-get install libdbd-pgsql sudo apt-get install libdbd-sqlite3 sudo apt-get install libdbd-mysql wget...

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Wipe a Hard Disk using Knoppix

Use shred to wipe your old computers hard drive before putting it in a dumpster Boot from a Knoppix CD and then: # get root su - # Find out what hard disks are installed by using fdisk minus L fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 255 heads, 63...

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id: cannot find name for group ID 10034

Warning: If you do this you can kill your Samba Install. I take no responsibility if you damage your installation if you action anything on this website. Problem: id: cannot find name for group ID 10034 Background: I think the above error message was from deleting...

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