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Dr. Paul Pepe, head of Dallas EMS, says that no one is in a life-threatening situation right now. Names haven’t been announced for the most part, but the most serious injuries were someone with head trama, someone with an open leg racture, and someone who was impaled with falling metal. Special teams coach Joe DeCamillis also broke his back.

There were 27 new players working out when the roof collapsed. Others in the building included coaches and members of the media. Among the players drafted that were probably working out at the minicamp includ the following players:

• Jason Williams, Western Illinois
• Robert Brewster, Ball State
• Stephen McGee, Texas A&M
• Victor Butler, Oregon State
• Brandon Williams, Texas Tech,
• DeAngelo Smith, Cincinnati
• Michael Hamlin, Clemson
• David Buehler, USC
• Stephen Hodge, TCU
• John Phillips, Virginia
• Mike Michens, Cincinnati
• Manuel Johnson, Oklahoma

Other undrafted players who have been confirmed or rumored to be working out with the Cowboys:

• Rudy Carpenter, Arizona State
• Kevin Ogletree, Virginia
• Julian Hawkins, Boise St
• Greg Isdaner, West Virginia
• Mike Turkovich, Notre Dame
• Asaph Schwapp, Notre Dame
• Jamar Hunt, UTEP

Again, nothing is confirmed – these are just players that could have potentially been there.

Any news, I’ll update.

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Newly Drafted Cowboys Hurt During Collapse

Clean: Using CCleaner, I clean the PCs including all the browser caches and various other application caches. (Read my introduction to CCleaner here.)

Disk Cleanup: I run disk cleanup ($ leanmgr) on all the drives.

Registry: I run a registry cleaner (these days CCleaner itself) to clean the registries, after taking a backup of the current registry set.

Virus Scan: I run an entire PC scan, not just the scan across the “commonly infected areas”.

Defragment: Using the disk defrgamenter ($ defrag –a <drive>), I first analyze all the drives and if necessary defragment the recommended ones.

Updatedb: I update the Cygwin file index.

Backup: I take a backup of all important data on my Transcend Extensible Hard disk. A good idea, don’t you think?

Image Sources: CCleaner, Disk Cleanup and Disk Defragmenter.

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My Weekly Scheduled Jobs

IMHO, both Windows and Google Desktop Search consume too many resources.

e.g. Windows Desktop Search recommends Pentium 1 GHz Processor and 256 MB RAM, 500 MB of free hard disk space,… A process that starts automatically all the time. Note that we don’t search for files on our desktop all the time and mostly have an idea which file sits in which folder. A desktop search is for that occasion where we’ve “lost” some file, now and then.

Cygwin provides the best alternatives: locate and find.

locate coupled with updatedb helps you find any file (even hidden ones and those in temporary cache folders) in your system.

When you run the updatedb ($ updatedb), as the name suggests, it updates its database creating a simple index of all the files that are present in the system, with full paths. The first time you run it, like any other indexing application, it takes a few minutes to index the whole system. From the next time, it barely takes a minute, if you run it periodically, that is. I run updatedb about once every week to keep the index fresh.

After updating the file index, you can start using locate.

$ locate <substring-of-filename>

gives you all the files on your PC which contain the substring in their filenames, within a second. Even the files that accidentally got saved in some obscure temporary folder can be retrieved easily.

There are more options to update and locate files with extra preferences but I never had to use them much. The default usage suffices.

The great thing, apart from the speed of retrieval, is that this is not resource intensive and a dedicated process is not always running on your system for it. Of course, you need Cygwin installed.

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Locate: A Desktop Search Alternative