Setting up Cron jobs under Linux - made easy

Here is a quick how-to to setting up cron jobs under *nix:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-do-i-add-jobs-to-cron-under-linux-or-unix-oses/

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Fixing Registry problems in Windows

The Registry is one of the most important components in every Windows
system. And since the Registry is quite sensitive to corruption, it is very
advisable to backup its according files from time to time.

I had recently encountered a laptop with Registry problems, the First thing
I did was to look for a registry back-up. Since, there weren't any I backed-up
the registry (entire registry) using erunt.exe available for download at:

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/

Once I had the Registry back-up in place, I manually fixed the registry keys
that were creating the problem (not advised to play around too much if you
aren't sure of what you are doing here). Then scheduled a regular back-up of
registry (a small batch script did the trick as erunt supports command line
operation).

I also used ntregopt.exe, a util available on the same site to optimize
the Registry, bingo! not only were the Registry problems fixed for good but
also the registry compressed and not to forget we now had scheduled
back-up of registry in place.

Hopefully the registry problems with that laptop have been fixed for good :)

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Adding a flash player to your blog/website

There are a whole array of ready-made flash audio players available today, that can be embedded into your blog/website and allow you to podcast music. This link showcases a wide variety of flash players from www.odeo.com that are sleek and elegant. You could also use Gmail's inbuilt audio player to play mp3's on your site, here is short how to. And if you want to play alpha-geek you could visit any of the sites that offer you an embeddable flash player (viz. www.youtube.com) and change the parameters passed to the player and use the code.

Happy Podcasting!

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