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Upgrading iPhone to iOS 4 via VirtualBox Failed!??

Posted on June 21, 2010 by jaux

You tried to upgrade your iPhone to iOS 4 via a virtual Windows machine running on VirtualBox, you then saw an error message said upgrading failed! What to do now??? Don’t panic! Take a look at the “USB” device icon … Continue reading →

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Number to Word

Posted on March 11, 2010 by jaux

10 = deca 100 = hecto 1,000 = kilo 1,000,000 = mega 1,000,000,000 = giga 1,000,000,000,000 = tera 1,000,000,000,000,000 = peta 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 = exa 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 = zetta 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 = yotta via

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Disable Bell in VIM

Posted on March 9, 2010 by jaux

" Disable both beep and visual flash set visualbell t_vb= via

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Nothing Could Fail in C

Posted on January 27, 2010 by jaux

Best comment of the C programming language ever! via:reddit Here is the whole story: Going back to C by buddhabrot When I was 12 someone gave me a Metrowerks IDE to learn programming on my mac. I learned a lot … Continue reading →

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“–” (Double-hyphen) in Bash

Posted on November 24, 2009 by jaux

$cat out if [ $# -eq 0 ] then echo "Usage: out [-v] filenames…" 1>&2 exit 1 fi if [ "$1" = "-v" ] then shift less — "$@" else cat — "$@" fi In out the — arguments to … Continue reading →

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