PC Tips & Tricks

Here is a snippet of MS Office source code, leaked some time ago:
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By: Dustin Baker

Small businesses face numerous pressures. The few employees of the business are responsible for trying to get orders, organizing deliveries, billing for the deliveries, paying bills and manage the incidentals involved in these key activities.

Good document management software can take over much of the work and free the small businessperson to focus on the business. We look at this issue in more detail below.
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By: Mukul Gupta

MySQL is a rock solid, lighting fast database server which has been designed for two factors speed and performance. It is the Ferrari of databases: Light weight, fast and Built for the high speed tracks!

I still hear an awful lot of stories from owners whose databases are running two slow. In my experience, the three main places to look for problems are:
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This is a small shell script I use to organize my pictures.
I usually download pictures from my digital camera to a folder and from time to time I want to put them in the folder corresponding to the date I took them. This script reads the EXIF data from the pictures and copies them to where they belong. The directory structure looks like this:
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In this post I will show you how to connect to a MySQL database, retrieve data from it and insert data in it using Python.

What you need:
1. Python v. 2.3.4 or newer
2. MySQL v. 3.23 or newer
3. MySQLdb – the Python DB API-2.0 interface
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“Nagios® is an Open Source host, service and network monitoring program.” (from nagios.org)

Nagios has a lot of features, making it a very powerful monitoring tool. Some of the major features are listed below:

• Monitoring of network services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING, etc.)
• Monitoring of host resources (processor load, disk and memory usage, running processes, log files, etc.)
• Simple plugin design that allows users to easily develop their own host and service checks
• Ability to define network host hierarchy, allowing detection of and distinction between hosts that are down and those that are unreachable
• External command interface that allows on-the-fly modifications to be made to the monitoring and notification behavior through the use of event handlers, the web interface, and third-party applications
• Web interface for viewing current network status, notification and problem history, log file, etc.

Installing Nagios

In FreeBSD you can install from ports. (/usr/ports/net-mgmt/nagios*). Some Linux distributions also include Nagios.

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Why Python?

Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools, comes with extensive standard libraries, and can be learned in a few days. Many Python programmers report substantial productivity gains and feel the language encourages the development of higher quality, more maintainable code.

Python runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, OS/2, Amiga, Palm Handhelds, and Nokia mobile phones. Python has also been ported to the Java and .NET virtual machines.
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As I said in my very first post, never use a Windows based computer without an antivirus software installed and kept up-to-date.

In the last four years I used only Grisoft products, starting with AVG 6.
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Today I finally quit using Windows on my home PC. I was a Vista user since the Beta 2 release, but I had enough. Yesterday Firefox (2.x) started to crash. I tried Firefox 3, but the same result. It seemed to work OK, but after a while it just started to die (StackHash module error). So I decided it is time to move to Linux.

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Second Life Community Toolbar

http://secondlife2005.ourtoolbar.com/

Second-Life Community Toolbar is the perfect connection between RL and SL. Made for SL residents, this toolbar prove to be the best gadget for all of them. And is totally FREE.

Download Page: http://secondlife2005.ourtoolbar.com/

***Works on Firefox browsers and Internet Explorer 5.0+ on all Windows systems (2000, XP, Vista)
***System requirements: Windows, Linux, Mac
***Includes uninstaller too.
***Is totally FREE and will be always FREE for all users who want it.
*** Is 100% safe and sure and will not harm or slow down in any way your browser or computer.

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