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formulatepro – Overlay text and graphics on PDF documents. Great for filling out forms. – Google Project Hosting
formulatepro – Overlay text and graphics on PDF documents. Great for filling out forms. – Google Project Hosting.
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GIMP: TypeError in slice(): integer argument expected, got float
Today, trying to slice an image with Gimp, with my Kubuntu Oneiric I have found this strange error message: “TypeError in slice(): integer argument expected, got float”. This is a well know bug, but until it will be fixed, you can fix it by yourself. Run from the terminal your Read more…
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Redo Backup: Bare Metal Restore Solution GUI
This livecd it’s a simple but powerful solution to backup and restore partitions. Easy graphical user interface boots from CD in less than a minute No installation needed; runs from a CD-ROM or a USB stick Saves and restores Windows and Linux machines Automatically finds local network shares Access your files Read more…
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pigz and pbzip2 – it’s time to evolve!
Recently I have discovered two new (at least for me) utilities: – pigz – Parallel gzip – pbzip2 – Parallel bzip2 I’m using gzip and bzip2 from ages, and also multiple processors and multiple cores, so why don’t use multi-threading compression utilities? They are (obviously) binary compatible with the old Read more…
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ImageOptim — all image compression tools in one Mac app
ImageOptim — all image compression tools in one Mac app. Very nice and open source application to reduce photo size without compromises!
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Have you an IOS device? Get 50gb for free!
The guys from Box.net are giving away 50gb of space forever if you install the last APP on your iPhone/iPod/iPad. It’s a nice and free backup solution! http://blog.box.net/2011/10/12/were-giving-ios-users-insane-amounts-of-free-storage-box50gb/ PS: It’s working also if you are an old user (like me). Just install the APP, log in and enjoy the space! Read more…
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Keep the ssh client connection alive
The problem: your favorite internet connection has one or more NAT between you and your server, so your SSH connection freeze after some idle time…
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Chromium Updater 0.4a [updated]
For developer needs, i usually have the latest web-browser installed on my system. I’m also using Chromium (the open-source version of Google Chrome) and some times ago I have found a little application called ChromiumUpdater, useful to keep Chromium updated. The application stopped working because the download path of the last version of Chromium has changed.
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cron.daily, cron.hourly, cron.monthly and cron.weekly not working
Well, I have just made a little discovery: under recent distros (I’m using Ubuntu 9.10) the cron stuff is changed.
If you label your script with a name containing a dot, the cron job is not executed. (!!!)
Until now, I used to label my scripts like script.sh but now this is evil 🙂
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NTFS 3G slow with VMware
If you have your vm hosted on a NTFS partition and the mount.ntfs-3g is eating all your CPU power, try to update the NTFS 3G to the last version and add to your .vmx file this config line: mainMem.useNamedFile=FALSE