task spooler is a Unix batch system where the tasks spooled run one after the other. The amount of jobs to run at once can be set at any time. Each user in each system has his own job queue. The tasks are run in the correct context (that of enqueue) from any shell/process, and its output/results can be easily watched. It is very useful when you know that your commands depend on a lot of RAM, a lot of disk use, give a lot of output, or for whatever reason it's better not to run them all at the same time, while you want to keep your resources busy for maximum benfit. Its interface allows using it easily in scripts.
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Gnome-schedule is a graphical user interface that leverages the power of vixie-cron, dcron and at to manage your crontab file and provide an easy way to schedule tasks on your computer. It supports recurrent (periodical) tasks and tasks that happen only once in the future. It is written in Python using pygtk, and has been developed, tested and packaged for various Linux distributions.
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The complete and simply to use backup solution for your Wii games
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JBackpack is a personal backup program. It features incremental backups, network transparency and encryption. JBackpack uses rdiff-backup for all backup and restore functions, SSHFS and SMB to access remote file systems and EncFS to encrypt backup destination directories.
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This post is for all Ubuntu Geeks who got frustrated that their time machine didn't run anymore after intallation of OS-X Lion or for those out there trying to get it running for the first time.
OS-X Lion requires netatalk > 2.2.1, however there seems to be no package for that available on the regular sources, but you can also build it yourself!
That is the strategy we will follow in this post. As with many things once you know the recipe the procedure is straightforward, but I've found many posts our there of people who tried but didn't succeed. Follow the path below and you will become a happy time traveller!
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