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Run this in a terminal window (without the leading $ ): $ python -c 'import random, time; time.sleep(2 + 8 * random.random()); \ prin...

Portable MariaDB is a small, portable binary distribution of the SQL server MariaDB (Monty's fork of MySQL) for Linux i386 (32-bit). On...

This blog post explains how to simply compress C++ with LZMA compression, using liblzma. Use the following functions: #include <stdlib....

This is a testimonial of the Cyanogenmod 7.1 Android spinoff operating system on the ZTE Blade phone. I've recently installed Cyanogenm...

This blog post gives instructions to get started with Android application development with IntelliJ on Linux. Install the Java runtime env...

This blog post demonstrates that GCC 4.1 does Named return value optimization , i.e. it omits creating a temporary object in a function retu...

This blog post explains how to set up Gmail so it will be able to initiate and receive voice and video calls. Download and install the Goo...

This blog post explains how to fix the no permissions error the Android Debugger displays when running the adb devices command Linux. The ...

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 ...