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This blog post shows a proof of concept implementation which can be extended to emulate a WebSocket client in JavaScript in browsers where ...

This blog post gives instructions on trying Stackless Python without installing it on Linux systems (32-bit and 64-bit). Use the Stackless ...

This blog post is an announcement of the StaticPython software distribution and its first release. What is StaticPython? StaticPython is...

This blog post explains how to download and start the bleeding edge MariaDB on a fairly recent 32-bit or 64-bit Linux system, for trial and ...

This blog explains how to create a bootable Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04) USB pen drive with persistent storage. Persistent storage means that a...

This blog post gives instructions to add (and generate) locales on Debian and Ubuntu systems. The instructions given here work on Debian Etc...

This blog post shows an approximation of the constant π (3.14...) implemented as a bc program using Machin's formula. Machin's for...

This blog post gives instructions to enable bitmap fonts for GNOME and other Xft X11 applications. The instructions given have been tested o...

Some of my experimenting with Btrfs in Linux 2.6.34 yielded the following results: If only one disk (out of two) contains corrupt data, th...

This blog post explains what an SSH agent does, and then gives initial hints and presents some example code using the ssh-agent wire protoco...

This blog post explains how to fix CUPS printing for HP LaserJet 1018. The instructions and the shell script presented have been tested on U...

This blog post gives an overview of the steps needed for creating and installing a new custom keyboard layout for X.Org (X11). The steps out...

This blog post gives the C++ implementation of the fast schoolbook algorithm for determining if two (finite) line segments on a 2D plane int...

This blog post explains how to disable the login sounds and other sounds for the default GDM and the GNOME session. The solution presented h...

This blog post explains how to disable the user list at the GDM login screen. The solution presented here was tested on Ubuntu Karmic Koala,...

This blog post explains how to disable Compiz Fusion (3D desktop effects), and enable Metacity (2D) as the window manager for a GNOME sessio...

This blog post explains how to add the Sun and Oracle VirtualBox keyring to Debian and Ubuntu, to prevent apt-get update from complaining. ...

This blog post shows an educational reference implementation of a semaphore using mutexes in Python. Please note that the number of mutexes...

This blog post is a tabular feature comparison of Syncless and the 6 most popular event-driven and coroutine-based non-blocking (asynchrono...