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We were getting around 2 mails per second with qmail for a bulk emailing, which was not fast enough and rather than try and patch qmail to fix a bunch of problems,  we chose to put the qmail queue on a temporary file system. It appears that one of qmails bottlenecks is disk access (so [...]

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I wanted to know how much disk space all the music ever released would take up and couldnt find an approximation, so I put together this to give me a ball park figure. If you add up all the abums on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Albums_by_year It gives 81,708 At around 4mb per track and 10 tracks per album [...]

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I’ve got a Miele W3824WPS washing machine, and I accidentally forgot to close the drain door at the bottom of the washing machine when doing a regular clean. This triggered an error “Technical  F100″  Fault nothing seemed to clear the error and I couldn’t find anything on the Internet about it. After a little but [...]

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SQLite [http://www.sqlite.org] is a very handy tool, essentially it creates a database in a file. SQLite V3 should be installed automatically with PHP5. I find SQLite very handy when I want to make standalone code that uses a database, and because it doesn’t require an external application(such as Mysql) it makes it very portable. I [...]

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GNU Screen is a free terminal multiplexer developed by the GNU Project since at least 1995. It allows a user to access multiple separate terminal sessions inside a single terminal window or remote terminal session. It is useful for dealing with multiple programs from the command line, and for separating programs from the shell that [...]

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