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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 …

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 …

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. Convert all lower case to up …

Operator Preference Grouping Order in C

Here is a compilation of how the preference of operators are Left to Right grouping or Right to Left grouping in C. Level Operator Description Grouping 1 :: scope Left-to-right 2 () [] . -> ++ — dynamic_cast static_cast reinte …

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 th …

Auto Away Notifier for Pidgin in Perl

Whenever I am away from laptop my chat buddies leave me lots message and finally lots of “You there???”. So I thought of making a script that would inform my buddies that I am away when someone sends me a message. This method works with Pigin API. I hav …

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 8a …