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This is a blog for collecting all sorts of things, so that I don't have to look for the same thing again and again in google.

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October 28, 2011

Use the following command to compare the following folders (note the trailing /):

diff -rq /folder_1/ /folder_2/

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Moving Pan's (the newsreader) profile folder to another location

January 15, 2010

Having decided to have separate drives/partitions for different tasks/files (duh! not a seperate partition for each and every file type!), I searched for a way to do that with my newsreader: Pan. Great little software (thanks Charles). Following is how I managed to achieve this quest!

Moving Profile Folder - Vista (May also apply to Windows 7)

December 07, 2009

Windows Vista introduces a fundamental change in the way user data is stored. The XP-style Documents And Settings folder is gone, replaced by the Users folder, which is located in the root of the system drive. Each user account has its own profile folder here, which contains 11 folders, each devoted to a different type of data.