Posts
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 [...]
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: Related Posts: Posts on Interview More Than 100% CPU In Top In Linux/Mac Service Engineer/System Administrator [...]
Service Engineer/System Administrator Interview Questions
This is not my code alone. It was the group effort of Vivek Ram, Cijo George, Sandeep Unni and mine during our epic preparation for Yahoo!. I am just putting it open for others who would be looking for this information. Related Posts: Posts on Interview More Than 100% CPU In Top In Linux/Mac Operator [...]
Installing Django on Dreamhost
Installing Django in Dreamhost and getting it to run wasn’t straight forward at-least to me. There was lot of issues such as python bin directory not accessible as its shared and so. Related Posts: Posts on Python Cron A Django Program Recent Searches How To See Invisible People In Gchat How To Display Mysql Starting [...]
Automatic Command Archive
The default command storing size of ubuntu is 500 commands. It stores the commands in home folder in the file “.bash_history” . The problem is 500 commands is too short of a size. One method is to increase the command size to a large value by changing the $HISTFILESIZE variable using the following command Related [...]
BSNL Dataone Auto Downloader
Bsnl(India) provides an account that has 2am to 8am unlimited download. It was not easy to wake up at 2am and switch on the computer and sleep again. So I tried to find a method to switch on the computer automatically at 2am and download and shutdown at 8am. Although the I thought the idea [...]
Simplest way to remove trailing zeros of decimal numbers
This is a simple method I found to remove or strip trailing zeros of a decimal number. The function accepts the decimal number and return the trimmed value back. It removes all the redundant zeros in the number after the decimal point and if no number other than zero is present after the decimal point [...]
Web page Performance for a Blog – Part 1
I have always under the notion that page performance for big websites or websites that have a sole server and various resources like CDN and load balancers. So I wanted to know if this is true. I set out to try web page performance my blog. I just wanted to see how much I can [...]
Print Array in PHP
There are various methods and commands used in PHP to print an array of elements. They are different in the way they print the array elements. I will cover three main ones I usually use. Lets assume an array as follows to explain the various types of printing. Related Posts: Posts on Php Simplest Way [...]
Check if a table exists in MySQL from PHP
Sometimes its necessary to execute a query or execute some code if a table exists or not. So a bit of searching got me to the conclusion that mysql doesn’t have a direct query or method for it from php. So there are two methods to do it. Related Posts: Posts on Java Batch Insert/Update [...]