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Download PHD Comics,XKCD and DogHouseDiaries for Offline Viewing (E-book Reader)

If you are like me who wants to read comics on kindle then this is the script for you. You can download all the comics to read it in a kindle. So here is how you do you do it. Download all the comics into 3 different folder s for each comic set by running …

Batch Insert/Update for Mysql in Java

Large inserts/Updates are a costly operation. One foolish way that I used to do is to run each update or insert query one at a time. Its incredibly slow. With most of the systems currently the latency is what is killing the performance not the CPU. Hence l …

More than 100% CPU in top in Linux/Mac

If you are power linux/mac user you should have noticed at least once that top shows more than 100% CPU for a process. I also have seen this multiple times but always wondered how it can be. Here is an example of how my top looked when I started my java an …

Enable Multiple Login in Same Account in Gmail

Gmail recently started merging its App accounts to Gmail. Hence you wont be able to login into both the accounts in the same browser now. Here is a way on which you can still do it. This can be done for people who have multiple gmail accounts and want to b …

Auto Backup using Dropbox in Linux/Mac

I had some folders on my disk which I wanted to keep a copy online as a backup and for viewing from other places. Its not always possible to save all the essentials in the drop box folder itself to be auto backed up. Thus I wrote a very small script which  …

User Level Threads

User level threads is created for light weight threads. It needs to be controlled, context switched and swapped by the process. To the Operating System it is only one process without any threads. Here is one implementation of it: q.h [c] #includ …

Ontology Linked Data

The following is a Assignment on Ontology and Linked Data and the evolution of data which lead to the use of ontology in web. Thanks to my teammates Bharath Gowda and Sravani Thota for working on the same. Ontology And Linked Data An ontology for …

Important MySQL DBA Interview Questions

Here are a few sets of interview questions expected for MySQL DBA position.These are compilation of the usual questions from various DBA texts: What is Log Switch? – The point at which ORACLE ends writing to one online redo log file and begins writin …

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