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How to get package info (including version and dependancies) on just about anything in Ubuntu

Do you know how to find out what version of SSH is running on your Ubuntu box?  How about what version of apt?  Would you like to see what certain packages depend on to run?  Or find the MD5 hash for already installed packages?

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Lost an Outlook Express Identity password? Here’s how to recover the email

Recently I had to help out a friend who, for various reasons had two Outlook Express identities on his XP machine.  He had recently changed the password to his ‘important' identity and couldn't for the life of him remember what it was. No password, no access, no important emails.  That's when I got called.  Here's how to recover the mail from an Identity that you can't log in to.

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Readyboost for Linux - a quick how to on getting more speed from a USB flash drive

Readyboost for Vista is a feature added to the OS where you can encourage your limping Vista install to jog a bit faster by essentially using a smallish USB drive as disk cache.  There's also some Vista Voodoo with Superfetch going on there. While Ubuntu (the distro that I use) and other distros don't really use Superfetch, you can still get an advantage using the disk cache functionality - particularily if you're running on a system that doesn't have a ton of RAM available.

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