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unix, linux and a small amount of windows too

How to create test files of any length

Tutorial to generate a test file under Windows, Linux and Mac OSX - without additional tools!
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Advanced screen features in Ubuntu 9.04

Advanced features of the program 'screen' are simple to use in Ubuntu now. This article describes simplification using the 'screen-profiles' package.
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microsoft office opendocument plugin available

by the way, the odf plugin for ms office i referred to a few days ago is available for download. quoting the mentioned site: The StarOffice 8 Conversion Technology Preview, a plug-in for Microsoft Word 2003 that allows users of Microsoft Word 2003 to read, edit and save import to the OpenDocument Format (ODF) is now [...]
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odf plugin for microsoft office along the way

hah, how great is that?! according to a press release sun just announced the release of an opendocument (odf) plugin for microsoft word based on staroffice or openoffice respectively in a few days. odf-plugins for all other microsoft office programs are expected to be released in april 2007. thanks to erwin for pointing this out.
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testing the bacula backup software – part 1

hey ya, fellow sysadmins. i started playing around with the open-source network backup software bacula on a sun fire v240 and a sun storedge lto 2v tape drive, which is actually a hp ultrium 448 drive rebranded by sun. i haven’t seen the application in action yet, because i’m currently lost in configuration. what really [...]
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