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Submission + - Swiss File Knife 1.5.3 released (sourceforge.net)

Submitted by SF:stahlworks on Friday January 23, 2009 @04:48PM

SF:stahlworks writes: One small Windows/Linux Command Line tool for everything. List tree sizes, find text in files, replace or filter text, run a command on many files, instant ftp server, find duplicates and file references, hexdump, hextobin, bintosrc, tcpdump, colored echo, tail, md5lists, split files, detab, collect text in large files, patch text, create aliases. No installation, runs from USB stick. Release 1.5.3 provides much faster text file reading, and listing of all .zip, .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 contents of a directory tree.

Comment Try turning off the Windows Search Indexer (Score 1) 835

by FrenchSilk on Friday January 23, 2009 @05:08AM (#26572029) Attached to: How To Diagnose a Suddenly Slow Windows Computer?

Windows search indexer turned out to be the cause of horrendous performance on my system. You can turn it off by running Services (find it at Start>Programs>Admiistrative Tools>Services). Right-click Windows Search service and select Properties. In Startup type, choose Manual. This made a huge difference in my case.

Comment Sure, Galileo gets all the attention and credit! (Score 3, Interesting) 119

by FrenchSilk on Thursday January 15, 2009 @05:29PM (#26473891) Attached to: Earth's Radio Telescopes Combining Forces

But Englishman Thomas Harriot made the first drawing of the moon after looking through a telescope several months before Galileo, in July 1609. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090114-first-moon-map.html

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