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Finding your Ubuntu version

$ cat /etc/lsb-release

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Visual Diffs

For some time now i started to notice the amount of time i wasted in solving version conflicts. The GNU diff works great with small change sets, but having a visual diff tool helps a lot when you’re dealing with long files with lots of diffs.
I used several visuall-diff-editors whit the several version-control software [...]

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“time-machine” ™ with rsync

The apple’s time-machine concept is precisely what i want for my laptop “backups”
For the information sitting in my laptop i don’t want traditional disaster and recovery backups, i want to be able to, quickly, search and restore any version of ( virtually ) any file.
Tthe problem? i don’t own a mac.
The principle of the thing:
Incremental [...]

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How to build RPMs

Bom .. andei o dia todo de volta de spec files.
Para quem precisar de fazer o mesmo aqui ficam dois links que ajudam a entrar nisto:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/books/max-rpm/max-rpm-html/s1-rpm-inside-files-list-directives.html
Este na realidade é um livro, está um bocadinho desactualizado (foi escrito para a versão 2 do RPM, vamos na 4) mas o essencial está lá.
http://www.rpm.org/RPM-HOWTO/
Este ém quick how-to que [...]

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