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June 20082008-06-30T19:36:30ZF Y

Mount FTP Or SFTP As A Drive In Windows

2008-06-292008-06-29T09:36:01ZY-m-d">June 29, 20082008-06-29T09:36:01ZF j, Y

Problem I want to mount my folders from my webhost over sftp (ssh) on my Windows machine for free. Something like sshfs for Windows. Discussion Currently there is no single application that will let me mount an SFTP connection as a drive. There are however applications such as NetDrive, FTPDrive, etc which will let me [...]

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Bypass Rapidshare’s Cats

2008-06-282008-06-28T05:59:53ZY-m-d">June 28, 20082008-06-28T05:59:53ZF j, Y

Are you getting frustrated with rapidshare’s captcha. Give CryptLoad a try: http://cryptload.info/ Need installing instructions (really simple): http://cryptload.info/wiki_en/wiki/Main_Page Also get the Rapidshare Happy Hour Checker: http://rapidshare.com/files/112883634/RSHappyHourChecker.zip Please comment on your experiences.

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IBM ThinkPad T43 Hissing Noise In Linux

2008-06-262008-06-27T01:56:54ZY-m-d">June 26, 20082008-06-27T01:56:54ZF j, Y

I have an old T43 laptop by IBM. Recently I put Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) on it and started getting a hissing noise when running on battery power. I found 2 possible solutions: add the following to /etc/modprobe.d/options options processor max_cstate=2 get the linux-server kernel sudo apt-get install linux-server I didn’t get a chance to try [...]

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PostgreSQL – Dump and Restore

2008-06-232008-06-23T20:24:18ZY-m-d">June 23, 20082008-06-23T20:24:18ZF j, Y

To dump data from a postgreSQL database you can use the pg_dump command as follows pg_dump database > file.sql   To restore that data you can execute the following command psql -d database -f file.sql -U db_username

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Sony VGN-SZ780 Laptop Review

2008-06-222008-06-22T12:48:22ZY-m-d">June 22, 20082008-06-22T12:48:22ZF j, Y

Recently I purchased a Sony VGN-SZ780 Laptop, as I haven’t had a working computer for close to a year now. Previously I managed to get by using my roomate’s laptop and the desktop at my research lab. My roommate had a sony SZ330 I believe with Windows XP (32-bit), it worked quite nicely once I [...]

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