December 2011
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Scrolling back in screen
A few years ago I discovered screen, a nice Linux tool that enables you to detached from terminal with commands running and all in the background. You can even connect later from a different computer and continue where you left off. I initially used it for rtorrent, but now I also use it to administer remote computers, for example when I start to do something that might take more than a day, I can...
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Why is Firebird better DBMS than Oracle?
Beside being free (both as beer and also open source), you don’t need 24x7 DBA and there are generally less headaches. Here’s a nice example explained by Norman Dumbar in a mailing-list post. Norman administers over 600 Oracle databases and about 40 Firebird ones:
Oracle uses log files for REDO and has ROLLBACK_SEGMENTS or UNDO Segments (depending on Oracle version) for UNDO. It...
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Using Quicken Home Inventory Manager on 64bit...
No, Quicken does not support 64bit Windows 7 yet. And there are no plans to do so. A few months back, GuacoSoft has released a new version of Attic Manager that is able to load data from Quicken directly. You can then export it into csv, excel, whatever OR simply use Attic Manager to manage the inventory.
Initial version of Attic Manager with this support (2.03) was only able to load data from...