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Uninstall ALL Versions of WinZip Batch Script

By jacob | Published: October 6, 2009
I have been struggling with this for quite a while, and ran into a lot of issues with all of the different versions on our network. There are people with 100 line .vbs scripts to do this, and I think this is much simpler: @echo off REM REM REM    Detects winzip and silently uninstalls REM    There is a un-stoppable pop-up [...]
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Tethered Blackberry Modem on Ubuntu Karmic

By jacob | Published: September 11, 2009
Using your blackberry as a 3G (in my case) modem proved to be Incredibly simple. There are five million different methods to do this and many have you compiling stuff and editing text files. I love those sorts of things, but this is much easier. I Wish that I had tried this sooner. **Confirmed using Blackberry [...]
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Install the proprietary Closed source version of Virtualbox on Debian Lenny

By jacob | Published: February 17, 2009
I like the closed source version of virtualbox. I just do. This is how to install it quickly and simply: add this to sources.list deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lenny non-free run this to get the public key and install it: wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add - then just install it aptitude install virtualbox-2.1 this will automatically create the group “vboxusers” and [...]
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