Before joining Dell I was mostly working in kernel writing in C programming language. At Dell I still work on mostly low level stuff, but this time it is user-mode, so I am not tied up to C anymore. We’re writing in C++ and I am learning C++. One of the less appealing things for […]
Here’s an interesting bit I ran into few days ago. I got curious how is that less (or more) can read file contents from standard input and yet it is able to process input that comes from user. Both of them come from standard input, yet these are quiet heterogeneous streams of information. So, how […]
Few days ago I’ve written a post explaining how to do a direct I/O in Python. But then I thought that it might be a good idea to explain what direct I/O is. So, here we go. As surprising as it is, when you write some information to the disk, it doesn’t get there immediately. […]
What is the most frequently used piece of software on your computer? Here’s one program that holds one of the highest place in my list of most frequently used programs. I am talking about… bash. In case you don’t know, this is the program behind large portion of the Linux command line. It is the […]
There were a couple of things actually, but most of them were solvable one way or another. There was one problem that I could not solve. I have a N95 cell. phone. There are couple of applications I use on it, but one of them I use the most. It is called Handy Safe Pro. […]
This question is especially relevant after yesterday’s fiasco. I ran into an article whose name is exactly Is desktop Linux too fragmented to succeed? The article argues that the fragmentation is what keeping Linux Desktop from beating Mac OS and even Windows. It is because the effort to create Linux desktop is scattered across multiple […]
Once every year or so, I get so frustrated with Windows Desktop that I decide to install Linux. I am a big fun of Ubuntu Linux. I use it for many things, this includes a server platform for this web-site. So most natural choice for me was to try Ubuntu 9.04, the latest version. I […]
Not that I am bored, but when I am looking for something to read on the internet, I usually end up reading Google news. Enough is enough. I am looking for interesting blogs about Linux, Linux administration and programming. So if you know one (or two, or three, etc), please help me by posting a […]
This article introduces signals in Linux to the reader. It explains the nature of signals, how to use them and gives few small use examples.
About this article I would like to do two things in this article. First I would like to tell you about SSH. How to make it work. How to use public key cryptography to login to a remote computer. How to execute remote commands and copy files to/from a remote machine. On the other hand, […]