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Unix day 1234567890

By on Saturday, February 14th, 2009 | No Comments

At 3.31 PST on Friday 13th, or on Valentines day depending whre you live, Unix computer clocks reached the time of 1234567890–1.2 billion seconds elapsed from January 1, 1970, the official beginning of the Unix epoch. The clock is used not just by Unix, but also by Linux, Java, JavaScript, Mac OS X, and various [...]

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Move firefox user profile to new computer

By on Friday, February 13th, 2009 | 4 Comments

I had some issues with my work laptop the other day and all my settings for my applications had been lost. Damn I thought, I’ve lost all my bookmarks and firefox settings. However I had backed up my profile a few days before but wasn’t sure how to move it to my new computer seamlessly. [...]

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PC/Server uptime?

By on Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 | No Comments

How long has my PC been running for? Often you want to find out as you need to know if your PC or server has rebooted. There are a quite a few software tools out there on the net that can do that for you, but you don’t need them. I’ll show you a couple [...]

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