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If you’ve found yourself wanting to run a Debian stable system but you have a burning need to use a particular testing package, then this is for you. (This might be the case if you want to run PHP5 or PostgreSQL 8.1 on Debian Sarge.)Some notes: Don’t try this ...

The authoritative source of IP range information at UCLA is the Network Operations Center. Refer to their site or send an email to confirm details: noc.ucla.edu Other UC campuses may have similar resources, such as these examples from Berkeley and Irvine. Ber...

According to the wikipedia:“The EE Times hosts news, columns, and featured articles for semiconductor manufacturing, communications, electronic design automation, electronic engineering, technology, and products.” http://www.eetimes.com

See Also: Who uses PostgreSQL at UCLA?PostgreSQL official website: http://www.postgresql.orgModified versions: Bizgres ExtenDBTuning Guides: PostgreSQL 8.0 Performance Checklist How the Planner Uses Statistics Server configuration optionsGraphical Admin Tools:...

The purpose of this page is to create a directory of people who are using PostgreSQL and what advanced features they are using. Please try to mention how you have found certain features useful so that you can give other people ideas on how to better utilize th...

The following works for Gimp 2.2.10, Ghostscript 8.54, and Windows XP: Install Gimp and Ghostscript (hopefully that is pretty straightforward) Gimp will give an error message if you try to open an EPS file Fix this problem by setting this environment variable:...

Install this Perl module using cpan (or your favorite method for installing Perl modules):Image::MagickThe following script will take all files in the “input” directory and create an animated gif. The order of the frames is the same as the alphabetical order o...

Assuming that you don’t have a built-in function that does this in one shot…Here is a trick for quickly (i.e. using minimal typing effort) counting the number of times a string occurs in a larger string:Below is some pseudocode for searching for a string calle...

Disaster has struck and your hard disk is in its final death throes. No problem, you made a backup last night, right? Of course you did… but a pipe burst and you lost your backup tapes?Assuming that you’re trying to backup a UNIX or Linux system:(if it’s Windo...

The obvious answer to this is to restore your backup onto a spare server. Or if it’s just a drive failure, the answer would be to restore your backup onto your spare drive. But since you’re reading this instead of restoring your backup, let’s assume that the s...

To get a list of shared libraries that a program needs:ldd /path/to/programThis will give you a list of the required shared libraries and the paths to the files that are being used for each requirement. If a file cannot be found for a particular requirement, i...

Let’s say that you like the color output that comes out of ls (different colors for different file types). But when you have lots of files and want to paginate it through less, you lose the color output. So how do we keep the colors?You need to give the -r fla...

Learn UNIX in 10 minutesUNIX Tutorial for BeginnersHow To Look Like A UNIX GuruBest Practices Learn 10 Good UNIX Usage Habits Learn 10 More Good UNIX Usage Habits Three Books Every System Administrator Should Read – Matt Frye Linux Magazine -July 1st, 2009 Uni...