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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 …
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. So the initial step in this to setup python yourself so that you can …
Get the nth Word from a text field in mysql
I had a requirement to get the nth word out of a string and sort or order by the same. This is used when the text is stored in a purticular format and you would want to order it according to that or group it or so on. So how is it done? We do it us …
Display Reminders In Gnome Panel
It was a long standing requirement of mine to create a reminder software or something which can keep me reminding of things as I always keep forgetting things. So I made a reminder that displays my reminders on the Gnome Panel. It looks something like thi …
Automatic Desktop Wallpaper Changer for Linux
I have a lot of wallpaper that I wanted to switch automatically. After a lot of search i found that there a command way to control all the gnome settings. So I the command I used is “gconftool-2″. So code is like: [bash] #!/bin/bash folder="/h …
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 othe …
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 t …
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 pri …
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