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This blog post explains how to install and run kradview on Ubuntu Lucid. Compiling and installing: $ sudo apt-get install libqt3-headers ...

This blog post presents my Skype notification setup on Linux. This setup contains no audio notifications and only a few visual notifications...

This blog post explains how to set up a compact GNOME desktop theme on Ubuntu Lucid, i.e. such a theme which consumes little screen real est...

This blog post explains how to set up a per-user default font configuration under Linux (tested on Ubuntu Lucid), which contains easy-to-rea...

This blog post explains how to set up the default search engine to Google in English language in Google Chrome. By default, if Google is th...

This blog post explains how to make the cursor not blink in text input and text area widgets in GNOME applications (including GNOME Terminal...

This blog post explains hwo to write a hello-world program which compiles in both Java and C++. The following solution makes use of the lan...

This blog post is to announce that StaticPython , a binary distribution of Python, has just released Python 3.2 binaries for Linux. (Previou...

This blog post is to announce PTetriS/HTML , a minimalistic, but correct Tetris-clone in HTML + JavaScript. Play PTetriS/HTML here , with a ...

This blog post shows an example low-level implementation of downloading a https:// page in Ruby 1.8. The reason why is this blog post was bo...

This blog post is an announcement for jtty-builder , an easy-to-install, lightweight webserver with a JSP container for Unix. More specifica...

This blog post is an introduction to TCP socket server programming and thread programming in Ruby 1.8. It also illustrates how compact and e...

This blog post is an announcement of python-xattr-compat , a portable Python 2.x module to query and set POSIX extended attributes of files....

This blog post explains how I managed to install CyanogenMod to a ZTE Blade phone (both Gen 1 and Gen 2). Please note that there can be mu...

This blog post explains how to automatically synchronize the Unix shell command-line history between multiple shell instances running on the...

This blog post explains how to dump the flattened version of /etc/passwd and /etc/group files on a Unix system when some user and group en...

This blog post explains how to run asynchronous, coroutine-based client and server I/O libraries like Syncless, gevent and Concurrence on Li...

This blog post explains how to implement the C printf() function in C++ in a typesafe and convenient way. The most important advantage of ...

This blog post explains how to drop in-memory cache of data on disk (pagecache, dentries, inodes) on Linux. Dropping the cache is useful if ...

A restaurant called fork() has recently been opened in our office building. The name was suggested and chosen by engineers. I imagine what ...

This blog post explains how to write a C++ program and compile with GCC ( g++ ) so that the resulting binary doesn't depend on libstdc++...

This blog post explains how to boot GRUB from SysLinux. Only GRUB1 is covered, the solution explained doesn't support GRUB2. Older vers...

This blog post explains how to get multiple clickable desktop notifications (i.e. those that were present on Ubuntu Hardy) on the default GN...

This blog post documents my unsuccessful software archeology attempt to find the origin and the author of the famous PostScript tiger color...

This blog post shows (with a counterexample) that C++ is not a superset of C, i.e. there is a valid C program which is not a valid C++ progr...

This blog post lists the browser compatibility issues (with solutions) I've encountered when creating a simple HTML(4) + JavaScript + CS...

This blog post is to announce uevalrun. uevalrun is a self-contained computation sandbox for Linux, using User-mode Linux for both compila...