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Linux crontab Considerations Tutorial

The crontab functionality in Linux or Unix is just great. It is batch processing, doing things while you are not there. This same crontab strength is also, at times, a source of its weakness … what if something goes wrong … Continue reading

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Photo Album Email with Gimp and Paintbrush Primer Tutorial

Were you surprised with our tutorial Image Fits in Gimp and Paintbrush Primer Tutorial as shown below, where Paintbrush ended up being a better option for an image editing job than Gimp, which we also use a lot here at … Continue reading

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NetBeans JavaFX Swing Primer Tutorial

The last time we talked about the NetBeans IDE it was with C, C++ NetBeans, gdbserver Debugging Primer Tutorial as shown below, and quite some time back. NetBeans for Mac has moved onto version 8.0.2 and today, wanted to show … Continue reading

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Windows File Server and File Sharing Primer Tutorial

Was discussing Windows and File Servers the other day with a student and realized it is a subject often taken for granted now in workplaces, and perhaps in home networks. The way you can share files between networked computers has … Continue reading

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Image Fits in Gimp and Paintbrush Primer Tutorial

Yesterday’s tutorial Xcode Swift Image Assets Primer Tutorial needed lots of image “fitting” to go on man person. On a Mac desktop with a MacBook Pro laptop, we find (Mac) Paintbrush to be that little bit friendlier than Gimp to … Continue reading

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Windows Command Line Interactive sort Tutorial

Today’s blog posting was going to be called Windows Command Line Piped sort Tutorial, but, alas, there is a good reason the Windows (MS-DOS) sort command is an exe file … you need a compiled program to work the piping, … Continue reading

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Windows Command Line sort Tutorial

If you were to nominate the most frequent “chore” you set your “software programs” to do, and we should never forget we are here to make software that achieves something, there is a big chance you’d choose the job of … Continue reading

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Python HTML Attribute Parsing Primer Tutorial

Let’s follow up yesterday’s Python parsing of XML (Python XML Primer Tutorial) with a bit of HTML parsing (on the Linux command line) … believe it or not this came second in I.T. history thinking … first thoughts were about … Continue reading

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