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How to generate test files of any length

Every now and then my fellow coworkers and me are faced with clients that mention problems uploading files of a specific size to web content management systems (CMS). While we are trying to solve the problem we need to test the upload ourselves. Now the filesize differs with every inquiry and we have to come [...]
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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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