I cannot count how many times I have thrown my hands up in frustration as Windows keeps yelling at me about a being unable to delete a file because it is still open. Who is holding it open? Enter Process Explorer. For a sampling of its many cool features you can read [...]

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This article hit way too close to home. This is EXACTLY what happened to my current project. The powers that be thought it would be a great idea to not only rewrite major portions of our code base, but they thought that they might as well change all the system interfaces and add [...]

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The find command is Linux is seriously cool. It allows you to do so much more than simply locate where a file lives. You can also do nifty stuff like delete all the temporary files on your whole hard drive, find broken links, delete empty files, search within files, and more. You [...]

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