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• How to change encoding of a file with vim? (example: to utf8)

  This is actual pretty easy, with vim, you just need to run the following command: :write ++enc=utf-8 utf8.txt This will let vim
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• How to test STARTTLS on a mailserver?

  You might want to test if STARTTLS works on your setup, or maybe some other server and see the internals.From
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• How to checkout a specific git tag?

  After you have created a local copy of the repository you can checkout a specif tag, so there you go:   git
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• How to fix "DB_VERSION_MISMATCH: Database environment version mismatch"?

  This happend to when I switched from Lenny to Squeeze and before, when I switched from Etch to Lenny. You might
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• How to convert a subversion repository to fsfs?

  This is actually not that hard, but might be time consuming, depending on your repository size. Anyhow, the bdb database
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• How to fix iconv: cannot open input file `database.txt': File too large?

  If you run into this problem there is one guy who already solved this and put it into an easy
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• How do I fix the index of an avi (divx) file?

  Hello, well this problem seems to be pretty common, especially with downloaded files from the internet, so here is how you
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• How do I create a fat32 paritition with Windows XP ( fat32format )?

  Hello folks, well as Microsoft has decided to strip fat32 from the formating tool, you do not have much choice to
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• PPTP client installation (with MPPE kernel patch) for Debian Sarge

  well, here the steps you have to take (no reboot is necessary): first we have to make our kernel understand MPPE,
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• Remote Desktop Client

  here you can download the Microsoft Remote Desktopclient..
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• What is wget?

  wget is a great tool for downloading files from the internet. It does supports resuming (via the -c command switch)
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• How to install mplayer on Kubuntu and Ubuntu?

    edit /etc/apt/sources.list and uncomment the lines for universe (remove the "#" in front of the lines) add a line similar
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