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This blog post explains how to try the GDM login screen and make screen shots in any, user-specified screen resolution. This can be useful w...

This blog post gives some hints how to create a .deb package file (to be used with Debian, Ubuntu and similar Linux distributions). The int...

This blog pts explains how to create a screen shot of the currently running X11 GDM login screen (the graphics login screen at system startu...

This blog post explains how to run Firefox 3.6 32-bit on an old Linux system, such as Debian Etch. First, here is some technical background...

This blog post gives example C code how to swap two elements (nodes, items) of a doubly linked list. The code works for both circular and no...

This blog post gives instructions how to make the current directory of the shell calling Midnight Commander be mc's current directory up...

This blog post explains how to regerated the Apache 2 SSL server key and certification on Debian Lenny. The default, self-signed certificat...

This blog post documents why and how to emulate Stackless Python using greenlet. Stackless Python is an extended version of the Python lan...

In Python 2.x, the string append operation ( string1 += string2 ) runs in average linear time (in the length of string2 ) iff there is only ...

This blog post describes and fixes an inconsistency between some keys with or without Ctrl in GNOME Terminal with international keyboard la...

This blog post documents my experiment to write a non-blocking HTTP server based on coroutines (tasklets) of Stackless Python . My goal was ...

I've written py-mini-s3 , a minimalistic client for Amazon S3 (AWS) in pure Python. It supports the GET and PUT operations. See its sour...

My instruction sequence compilation of the traditional Unix sex theme: date ; touch ; kiss ; grep ; strip ; unzip ; finger ; mount ; fsck ...

This blog post is a fun example for implementing univariate polynomials with operator overloading in Python. It is almost a domain-specific ...

To get an idea how fast Google Go code can be compiled, I've compiled a big chunk of the Google Go library code with the default 8g comp...

This blog post explains how to write a Google Go program which contains multiple packages. Let's suppose your software contains multiple...

Introduction and copyright This is a tutorial on writing FUSE (Filesystem in UserSpacE for Linux and other systems) servers speaking the ...

This blog post presents the buffered IO speed test I've done with the standard implementation of the programming language Google Go , as...

Reading a whole file to a String in Java is tricky, one has to pay attention to many aspects: Read with the proper character set (encoding...

Here is how to convert a Unix timestamp to a Gregorian (western) civil date and back in Ruby: # Convert a Unix timestamp to a civil date ([...

This blog post gives example code how to do AES encryption and decryption in Python. The crypto implementations shown are written in C, but ...