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SofTax 2009 PDF Speichern/Kopieren

Es ist wieder einmal die Jahreszeit, wo tausende von Schweizer und Schweizerinnen ihre Steuererklärung ausfüllen und abgeben müssen. Wer die Graubünder Software “SofTax” verwendet, hat natürlich den digitalen Vorteil gegenüber der Papierversion. Jedoch lässt sich das generierte PDF nicht kopieren oder speichern. Eigentlich. Dank eines einfachen Tricks für Mac OS X lässt es sich doch […]

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Perfect Online Backup Strategy

For over 15 months I am using BackBlaze as an online backup system. Once installed and configured, it automatically backs up all my data in the background. No matter how many files or how large your backup is, everything is safe. BackBlaze currently backs up 38 GB of data in 634’244 files for me. Now […]

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Snow Leopard Pro-Order Now

The Swiss Apple Online Store has just re-opened after being down for over one hour. And what Twitter users pre-told is true. You can pre-order Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6) and it will ship by August 28 (at least in Switzerland). Of course I’ve already ordered my copy 🙂 Now Digitec needs to hurry up […]

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vim: Regex Search and Delete Line

:%g!/\< \(STRING\|VALUE\)\>/d Explanation :%g Range to search. %g means the complete file ! Negotiation. Can be used to negate the regex \< \(STRING\|VALUE\)\ regular expression (regex). Can be anything /d command to execute with each line found. d means delete Example used :%g/INSERT INTO `table` VALUES>/d This command deletes ALL lines with INSERT INTO `table` […]

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