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Entries from November 2008

Maxing Out Your Love-Growth-Cash Triangle

November 29th, 2008 · No Comments · news, personal

Most people take on new jobs, projects and hobbies for three reasons:
To learn something new
To pay the bills
Because they love doing it

These three things fulfill some of our very basic needs—they give us stability, excitement, ways to contribute and opportunities to grow.

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GCC Compiler Extensions Used in Linux Kernel

November 21st, 2008 · No Comments · c programming, linux

GCC and Linux are a great pair. Although they are independent pieces of software, Linux is totally dependent on GCC to enable it on new architectures. Linux further exploits features in GCC, called extensions, for greater functionality and optimization.

Read this article from IBM Developer Works to find out more…
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Deadly Linux Commands

November 21st, 2008 · No Comments · linux tips, news

If you are new to Linux, chances are you will meet a stupid person perhaps in a forum or chat room that can trick you into using commands that will harm your files or even your entire operating system.

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Don’t waste your afternoon drawing UML Sequence Diagrams

November 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment · news

www.websequencediagrams.com

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Five Things People Hate About Their Favorite Language

November 17th, 2008 · No Comments · programming

If they can’t find five things to hate about their favorite tool, they
don’t know it well enough to either advoc ate it or pull in the big dollars using it.

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Linux Directory to an ISO

November 14th, 2008 · No Comments · linux, linux tips

If you want to backup any of your directories in Linux file system, you can use following command. Replace LABEL and directory to suit your needs.
mkisofs -V LABEL -r directory | gzip > cdrom.iso.gz

In Ubuntu 8.04 mkisofs command is just a symbolic link to genisoimage, the fork of mkisofs. It provides a mkisofs symlink to [...]

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PulseAudio Flooding LAN with Multicast Packets

November 14th, 2008 · No Comments · linux, linux tips

If you enable Multicast/RTP Sender and set the option ’send audio from local speakers’ in above PulseAudio configuration window, it will flood the network with multicast packets when you play music in your computer. This problem has mentioned in this thread in ubuntuforums.org. Yesterday this has happened to me and it took 3 hours to [...]

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Getting Started with libusb on Ubuntu

November 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized, linux

What is libusb?
libusb is a library which user level applications can used to access USB devices without worrying about the underlying operating system. Or we can see it as a high-level API which wraps low-level kernel interactions with USB modules and provide developer with the facility to implement device driver for a USB device from [...]

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Linux boots in 2.97 seconds

November 12th, 2008 · No Comments · linux, news

Japanese embedded Linux house Lineo has announced a quick-start technology that it claims can boot Linux in 2.97 seconds on a low-powered system. The technology appears similar to but much faster than Linux’s existing “suspend-to-disk” capability.

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Linux vs. Mac vs. PC

November 11th, 2008 · No Comments · linux, personal


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