software

rdfind - Linux file duplicate finder

Submitted by bdillahu on Mon, 10/26/2009 - 11:14

I have searched off and on for years for a good duplicate file finder/cleanup tool for linux. Doesn't look like it would be that obscure need, but there aren't that many out there, at least that I found.

fdupes is the one I have seen referred to most often, and it does work fine, but never quite what I wanted.

I recently found rdfind. I don't know where its been hiding, but check this tool out!

Older Autocad 2004 LT won't start on new Dell equipment

Submitted by bdillahu on Wed, 04/25/2007 - 13:50

Three of us spent the day debugging (flailing at) this problem...

It was a new, dual processor Dell box.

The symptom was that you double-clicked to run the application and nothing happened. You could occasionally catch it using the CPU for just an instance, then it was gone. Absolutely no error messages and nothing logged (nothing in eventvwr, etc.).

Turning off the BIOS setting under security for "Execute Disable Memory Protection" seems to have made it happy.

I imagine newer applications would deal with this, but for an older app...