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Scheduling tasks

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Shashank Sharma is a trial lawyer in Delhi. He collects geeky memorabilia, but wonders if sanitisers would qualify.

The Occam’s Razor principle is often paraphrased as ‘the simplest answer is often correct’. Although this has long been thought as something that applies to science, this principle can also be used to determine the best software solution to a given problem. This is why tools like and remain so popular for automating recurring tasks. is used for tasks you wish to perform repeatedly, such as installing updates, or performing backups. The utility, on the other hand, can be used to run tasks only once, at the specified

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