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If you manage multiple wordpress based blogs, you know it can be quite a chore. Keeping the installations up-to-date is cumbersome. Add to that the time and effort spent keeping all the plugins up-to-date and you’re spending quite a lot of time there already. Thankfully, there are several options that, if you find them suitable, [...]

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This tutorial will walk you through the installation of dropbear and getting SFTP and passwordless authentication working on a Debian system. Dropbear is a lightweight SSH server and client . It implements SSH2 protocol, just like OpenSSH, but without all the bells and whistles. So much so that it doesn’t even come bundled with SFTP [...]

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I normally use Outlook Express for my email. And I was only playing around with Thunderbird the other day, when I accidentally hit “Get Messages” without first configuring Thunderbird to “Leave mail on the server” … So here I was, with Thunderbird holding hostage the mail that belongs in my Outlook Express.

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One of my friends recently wanted my help with recording a web telecast for viewing offline. I thought it would be a good idea to write a small tutorial about it. To capture good quality video without sacrificing a huge amount of disk space, we must compress it before storing it onto the disk.

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