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Issue: All application that was installed through App Store does start. (Not quite sure what the caused this)

Solution: Go to App Store and install another application.

Well, IPod Touch is here and I’ve used it for just over a month. Do I like it? Yes! Did I needed it? Well, that can be another discussion altogether on the technological needs vs. want debate. But with approval from my wife (Thank you!) I finally had seal of approval to purchase the IPod Touch 32GB model.

So far, I’m using it to read books, watch movies, work it as PIM, listen to music, play little game, organize my finance, read news, and many more! But not all systems are perfect.

It was second time that it had happened. All the application and games installed from the App Store does not start. All other ones that are default to the IPod Touch runs fine, but those that were installed online were not working. I’ve tried to reset the IPod to factory settings, but that did not work and I was left with moving files back into IPod. I’m not quite sure what exactly had caused this issue. All I know is that when you install another application from the App Store, system somehow resets itself and everything seems to go back to normal again.

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It comes in handy…

http://files.fosswire.com/wpu/2008/04/ubunturef.pdf

Well.. I needed to move some of web files from old server to the new. Needed to keep the same permission to avoid hassles. So what to do?

well my guru co-worker who speaks in fluent -nix among other lanuages suggested using tar. I thought… tar?

well apparently there is a standard IO flag that can be used in order to pipe it to the new location like sample below.

tar -cf - /some_directory/ | tar -xvf -

the dashes between cf and / as well as after xvf are the flags that indicates to tar to write to standard io instead of a file.

In the end, I didn’t have to worry about file permission, ownership and all that nasty stuff that can make the site go weird on you sometimes …

Neat trick and saved me many keystrokes …

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