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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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Ubuntu 9.04 release party in Berlin this weekend

The Ubuntu-Berlin crew celebrates the release of a new major release of Ubuntu again. This time the major is called “Jaunty Jackalope” and Ubuntu-Berlin hosts a great night at c-base to revel it – who said that geeks don’t like to party! This is the agenda of sessions held during the party. More information [...]
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Moonlight 1.0 – the open-source implementation of Microsofts Silverlight

Microsoft has been promoting Silverlight as a premium plattform for Rich Internet Applikations (RIA) and as an alternative to Adobe’s Flash and AIR plattform, respectively. Silverlight is natively available for Microsoft Windows and Apple MacOS operating systems. Microsofts neglect of other operating systems such as Linux has been criticized earlier. photo credit: ColorLoose Now i have [...]
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