kieranbarnes

HomeSeer helps you automate things around the home directly from your PC or even when you are away via phone, the Internet and email. It allows you to create events that the package will respond to and make something happen. This goes beyond simply turning on the lights at 6pm everyday.
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Has your NFS mount point hung and turned into a black hole swallowing every filesystem command?

Try to unmount it forcefully.

umount -lf /mount/point

Then remount it,

mount -a

I’m trekking into the unknown - CentOS, but thats off topic. For some reason, even the latest version stuck in 1982 - vi as the default editor for cron etc. Argh! I hate vi!

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WP-o-Matic makes autoblogging a easy by automatically creating posts from the RSS/Atom feeds you give it. Unfortunately, the latest release doesn’t work very well, by itself or on Wordpress 2.5. Watch out for my post on fixing Wordpress 2.5 issues.
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Stuck trying to find text within files on Linux?

cd /directory_tree_you_want_to_search
find . -type f -exec grep -l "string to find" {} \; -print

Easy!