I just recently upgraded the computers here to Ubuntu Dapper from Breezy. On one of the computers I was trying to install webmin using apt-get, but with no luck. I finally found out that webmin was removed from the Ubuntu repository at the authors request. The instructions for setting up webmin under [...]

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Since part of my job entails system administration I get to spend a lot of time configuring, fixing, setting up, and tweaking computers. I’m currently setting up several servers and since my favorite Linux distribution of all time is Ubuntu, guess what I’m installing?
Ubuntu is a Debian derivative, and as such uses apt to [...]

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I’m not sure if this is the intended behavior or not, but I found a “feature” in PyFIT that had me smashing the keyboard with my face. According to the PyFIT documentation you should be able to create a table like this:

|TestClass|
|InputString |OutputNum |
|Hello World [...]

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What? An Excel tip in a software testing blog? It seems I spend way too much time creating reports for my managers, so I do rely heavily on Excel. While creating a generic risk assessment spreadsheet I wanted to only allow certain values in some of the cells. After a quick [...]

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