This video is an interview with the great minds behind the open source. It show the video interviews of Eric Raymond, Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman and many people who work hard in making open source software as it is today.This is also a documentary of how Linux was born and how it revolutionizes the world of Operating System, The history of GNU, The Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Movement.

As you use your hard drive, it can develop bad sectors. Bad sectors slow down hard disk performance and sometimes make data writing (such as file saving) difficult, or even impossible. The Error Checking utility scans the hard drive for bad sectors, and scans for file system errors to see whether certain files or folders are misplaced.

If you use your computer daily, you should run this utility once a week to help prevent data loss.

To run the Error Checking utility:

Tip: Only select the “Automatically fix file system errors” check box if you think that your disk contains bad sectors.

By freeing disk space, you can improve the performance of your computer. The Disk Cleanup tool helps you free up space on your hard disk. The utility identifies files that you can safely delete, and then enables you to choose whether you want to delete some or all of the identified files.
Use Disk Cleanup to:

Tip: Typically, temporary Internet files take the most amount of space because the browser caches each page you visitfor faster access later.

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The last time i post on how you can convert mysql files to csv, but how about if you want to directly convert the entire sql table to excel file, well here is a trick.

mysql -uroot -p your_db -Be “select * from your_table” > /home/folder/your_table.xls

Hope this helps… Do drop me a comment if it did.