I've made my mark

It’s been about a month since I’ve migrated my blog from a hosted service at Wordpress.com to hosting my Wordpress blog on my own servers. So far, everything is doing quite alright especially the benefits of self hosting Wordpress which gives me total control over my contents and my plugins.
So this is intended to be [...]

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Given an existing directory containing files and folders, how can I reproduce the same structure somewhere else on the hard drive (or otherwise), but instead of copying the full file contents, just have dummy files with the same name?
This question came from a question on Atomic MPC forums that I thought would be really simple [...]

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e-Record is a free tool offered by the Australian Tax Office (ATO) to help small businesses keep records needed for tax reporting. It uses FileNet Desktop eForms application (now belongs to IBM), and it is terribly out of date (just like Windows XP).
So what happens when you install it on Windows Vista or Windows 7? [...]

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Like many others, I maintain a server that runs 24/7 and it’s connected to the internet. Yesterday I came home to a most unusual sight on my server’s status LEDs – unexplained network activity. It’s unusual because for me, my server is almost always idle. It doesn’t serve web pages, and in fact it doesn’t [...]

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The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is a programming competition for students in higher education that involves solving a number of interesting problems (roughly 10) within 5 hours using C/C++ and/or Java.

To enter, you must form a team of 3 people, and find a coach. If you ask around your computer engineering or [...]

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