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For each parameter, the first obtained value will be used. The configu- ration files contain sections separated by “Host'' specifications, and that section is only applied for hosts that match one of the patterns given in the specification. The matched host name is the one given on the command line.
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Money Manager Ex – is a free, open-source, cross-platform, easy-to-use personal finance software. It primarily helps organize one's finances and keeps track of where, when and how the money goes. It is also a great tool to get a bird's eye view of your financial worth.
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BlueFletch is a team of technical and business consultants who provide technical architecture, project management, technical strategy services.
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he professional networking site tells AdAge that it'll offer 50 cents to $2.50 per minute of your attention while you fill out surveys
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The quickest and simplest route out of the three is definitely an AirPort Disk, and it’s also, somewhat surprisingly, a performance winner in my real-world testing.
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muCommander is a lightweight, cross-platform file manager featuring a Norton Commander style interface and running on any operating system with Java support (Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, *BSD, Solaris…).
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Pukka (click here for pronunciation) is a richly-featured client for Delicious, Ma.gnolia, and compatible social bookmarking services. Fire it up and within seconds you can easily post to one or more accounts. Pukka comes with its own bookmarklet for super fast posting, or you can drag a URL from any browser, open a URL shortcut file on the desktop, or drag a URL right onto the dock icon. You can even set Pukka as your external weblog client in NetNewsWire, NewsFire, and Vienna.
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We had the requirement of monitoring a set of production websites to see their status every few minutes. But the condition was not to just see if the websites are accessible but to run a quick smoke test on them and see if they work.
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Cram doubles as a replacement for your traditional flashcards and a personal tutor. In study mode, Cram displays your test questions and has a one-touch show button to display the answers. Cram's testing mode is invaluable. Perfect for standardized tests, certifications, or class exams.
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As Ferrell's Bush puts it, the election is between "the hot lady and the Tiger Woods guy" and "I'm out of here in a few months, so screw it."
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Amazon announced today that you can run Windows on EC2. I'm giving this a go, as being able to spin up virtual Windows boxes on the other side of the world might come in handy one day. I don't see a HOWTO on Amazon's site, so here's a log of my attempt today.
I don't see a list of the public images, but searching for "amazon public images" window server 2003 on the Submit an AMI page brought up a few official-looking ones.
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RichFlv can
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The AIR iPhone is a desktop application created with Adobe AIR and Adobe Flex 3, it simulates the UI of the iPhone. It has the capabilities to make calls, receive calls, check voicemail, add contacts and even send voice messages, all using Ribbit.
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ReadAir is an OSX Themed Desktop Client for Mac or Windows. Built with Adobe Air.
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GMDesk is an application that lets you run Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Maps as a stand-alone application to do all your mail handling, calendar event reading etc with. No need to open it up in a web browser, or have it clutter your workspace.
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we strongly believe that Adobe Air has unleashed the power to extend user experiences beyond the browser. Here’s our collection of 60+ Adobe AIR Application you should know.
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Dear Red States…
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js.io simplifies creating rich web applications by providing direct integration with Open protocols.
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This diagram explains Java by placing it in the context of related concepts and examples, and by defining its major components and other connections between them.
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This "acts_as" module makes it extremely simple to add Amazon integration to an existing model.
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bringing conventions to database administration
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Simply paste in some notes you've created and RedMinutes will split them up into sections for commenting and easy viewing. It gets even better if you've formatted your notes with Textile.
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Today we are glad to release a Simplicio icon set. The main motivation behind the design was to create a simple, even minimalistic set which can fit into every project. The set contains 78 free icons in .png and .ico including AI which can be useful for both corporate and personal setting. You can use the set for free – without any restrictions whatsoever.
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DbVisualizer is a database tool useful for developers and database administrators to aid develop and maintain their databases. It is the perfect solution since the same tool can be used on all major operating systems accessing a wide range of databases.
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Aqua Data Studio is a database developer's complete Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The IDE provides three major areas of functionality: A) Database query and administration tool, B) a Suite of compare tools for databases, source control and filesystems and C) a complete and integrated source control client for Subversion (SVN) and CVS.
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Put another way, in order to avoid giving a refund to our hypothetical attacker, Amazon has to maintain a failure rate almost 10 times lower than what might be naively assumed from reading the SLA.
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A useful MySQL command, when it comes to keeping track of client-server transactions, is SHOW PROCESSLIST
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There’s a whole world of domains out there—hundreds at the top-level and even more beyond—Domainr helps you explore them all. Some of our favorites are is.ydnar.in, last.fm and way.nu.
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Listing 1 shows an application-level load balancer that uses a HTTP request parameter to decide which back-end server to use. In contrast to the transport-level load balancer, it makes the routing decision based on an application-level HTTP request, and the unit of forwarding is a HTTP request.
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She utilized a little HTML tweaking and the free stat-tracking, URL-shortening service bit.ly to pull it off.
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Lookery’s own statistics from Quantcast suggest that their publisher traffic has been almost halved since the new site design was released.
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This agreement is entered into this ___ day of ___ 20__ by and between _____________ (hereinafter "The Advisor") and _____________ (hereinafter "The Keeper of the Idea" or "I") regarding information The Keeper of The Idea is choosing to share with The Advisor (hereinafter "The Idea").
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JQuery is the star among the growing list of JavaScript libraries. A few of its characteristics are light-weight, cross-browser compatibility and simplicity. A task that would take 10 lines of code with traditional JavaScript can be accomplished with JQuery in just 1 line of code.
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In this post we’ll take a brief look at 10 of the leading resources for making your browser testing less time consuming and more productive.
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The Quicksilver Subversion Plug-in allows users to perform actions on Subversion repositories.
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I'm told that one of things Switchers miss when they come over from the dark side is the ability to create new files simply by right-clicking and choosing a type from the "New" submenu in Windows
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Space4J is a simple database system that will let you work with Java Collections in memory. Instead of having to perform a SQL SELECT to fetch a User from a database table, you can just access the users map (java.util.Map) and call users.get(id). With Space4J, all your data is kept in memory inside the JVM.
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you will need to download the EC2 command line tools & then set them up. For instructions on how to setup the EC2 tools, read this.


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