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If you want to synchronize your backup and your primary hard disk, you can do it very easy with just one single command. I use this command to synchronize my music directory on an external backup disk with my laptop or my pc.

c:\>xcopy /D /E /Y F:\music C:\data\music

This xcopy command copies only those files from F:\music whose source time is newer than the destination time on c:\data\music (D option) and it does it recursively (E option) without prompting you (F option).
If you want to know more about xcopy check the man pages: c:\> help xcopy
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VMware Server is a free virtualization platform which can be used for running virtual operating systems on your computer. For example you can use VMware to run a linux system on your windows system. The benefit is, that you can easily turn your image back into an old state (snapshot) and you can manage operating systems like applications.

If you work from time to time with VMware Server and you do not want to have all the windows services eating your resources, you could use a script to start and stop the services on demand. Read the full article to get the script. You could easily adapt it and use it to start and stop your own services with the batch file.

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GIMP is a very good alternative to Photoshop. It is an open source project and it contains nearly all functions as Photoshop. The main difference between these programs is the way of using and finding the adequate functions. You need a little bit time to accustom yourself to GIMP. Though, it’s worth making the effort.

One of the coolest things about GIMP is the script extension called Script-Fu. Script-Fu makes use of the programming language known as scheme a LISP dialect which supports functional programming with a minimalist philosophy.

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