2013-04-21

How to send ZIP-compressed, streaming AJAX response

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This blog post explains how to send a ZIP-compressed HTTP response to an AJAX (XMLHttpRequest) request in a streaming way. By streaming we m...

How to list Android apps in the order they were installed

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This blog post explains how to list applications on an Android device (phone, tablet etc.) in the order they were installed. This list can b...
2013-03-31

How to download all .apk files from an Android device to the computer

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This blog post explains how to download all .apk files (application software package installers) from an Android device (phone, tablet, etc....
2013-02-11

Calling JavaScript method references

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This blog post is a documentation of a quirk in the JavaScript language: method calls and method reference calls don't operate on the sa...
2012-12-30

Hungarian spell checking, hyphenation and synonyms in LibreOffice 3 and OpenOffice 3

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This blog post explains how to install the Hungarian spell checking, hyphenation and synonyms extensions to OpenOffice 3.x and LibreOffice 3...
2012-12-03

Announcing intalg: integer and number theory algorithms in pure Python 2.x

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This is the initial release announcement for pybasealgo (fast implementation of basic algorithms in pure Python 2.x, minimum version:) and ...
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2012-11-15

How to start and kill a Unix process tree

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This blog post explains how to start a (sub)process on Unix, and later kill it so that all its children and other descendants are also kille...
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2012-11-10

How to prevent GNU Screen from switching screens upon termination and detach

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This blog post explains how to prevent GNU Screen from restoring the original terminal window contents upon a termination or a detach. The o...

Bitwise tricks in Java

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This blog post shows some tricky uses of bitwise operators in C, mostly to compute some functions quickly, processing many bits at a time in...

Bitwise tricks in C

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This blog post shows some tricky uses of bitwise operators in C, mostly to compute some functions quickly, processing many bits at a time in...
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2012-11-04

How to use Unicode accented characters in PuTTY in UTF-8 mode

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This blog post explains how to set up PuTTY to connect to a Linux server in UTF-8 mode, so that all Unicode characters (including symbols an...
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2012-09-22

How to change the volume label to lowercase on an USB stick, memory card or any VFAT filesystem on Ubuntu Lucid

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This blog post explains how to change the volume label to lower case on an USB stick, memory card or any other VFAT filesystem. The instruct...
2012-09-04

How to unlock an Android phone using adb if you know the password

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This blog post explains how to unlock an Android phone using adb if you know the password. This can be useful if the touch screen of your p...
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2012-08-14

How to use duplicity on Ubuntu Lucid to make backups to Google Drive

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This blog post is a tutorial explaining how to install duplicity to an Ubuntu Lucid system and how to make backups to Google Drive using du...
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2012-08-02

How to format a double with 5 digits of precision in pure Java

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This blog post shows pure Java code to format a double with 5 digits of precision, i.e. non-scientific notation, rounded to at most 5 digits...