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Firstly, in case you don’t know, Dropbox is a cross-platform service for file sharing, synchronizing and backup. The application is free, along with basic use of the service (up to a limit of 2GB). However, by referring users to create a Dropbox account, both the user who is referring and the user who created the [...]

The Windows Vista I/O-related changes include file-based symbolic links, more efficient I/O completion processing, comprehensive support for I/O cancellation, and prioritized I/O. A file system feature many have considered missing from NTFS, the symbolic file link (or as it’s called in UNIX, the soft link) finally arrives in Windows Vista (Win 7). The Windows 2000 [...]

In the Linux operating system, all filesystems are contained within one directory hierarchy. The root directory is the top level directory, and all its subdirectories make up the directory hierarchy. This differs to other operating systems such as MS-Windows which applies a separate hierarchy for each device and partition.

When you do not know the name of the command you need to carry out a particular task, you can use apropos with a keyword to search for it. This utility searches for the keyword in the short description line (the top line) of all man pages and displays those that contain a match. The [...]

The 1unix2dos utility is part of the 1tofrodos software package; give the command 1sudo aptitude install tofrodos to install the package. Gibe the following command to convert a file named memo.txt (created with a text editor) to a DOS-format file: $ unix2dos memo.txt Without any options unix2dos overwrites the original file. You can now email [...]

The script utility records all or part of a login session, including your input and the system’s response. It has its advantages. For example, when you 1cat a file that has captured a 1vim session, the session quickly passes before you eyes. By default script captures the session in a file named 1typescript which will [...]

Hi folks, I got my BS in Computer Science about seven years ago. I spent two years in neuroscience research and the next three providing what amounts to tech support. But I love computer programming – and I have since written, as a freelancer, non-trivial commercial code in Haskell, Smalltalk, and Objective-C. I used these [...]

First, what I need is a SSH Client and Putty is a good candidate. Putty is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. You can download at its homepage Putty’s hompage. After downloading Putty, let’s try to log-in SSH Server with 2 ways discussed [...]

Please note that backing up personal files to their servers is against their terms of service (UNLIMITED Hosting Space not disk space), so if they catch you they will probably delete all your files and suspend your account!

I remembered a tool used by one of the magazines I read called H2bench. This tool should produce reliable results. Though the tool’s homepage is only available in German the tool itself is also translated into English. It is a CLI only tool, but its usage is pretty straightforward. The following command will benchmark hard [...]