How To Write Infinite Loop in Bash

September 14th, 2008 One of the common challenges bash script writers face when writing a script which references files in the same directory (or its sub-directories) as the script file. As the script can be called from anywhere, you cannot use the current directory to refer to the files.

November 18th, 2007 Replicating on two or more MySQL master database servers 1. MySQL Master-Master Replication Fails With ERROR 1200 (HY000) on Master 2.

August 8th, 2008 Normally any website that responds to /index.php also responds to /. This has the potential to duplicate content.

November 14th, 2005 After enhanced for loop was introduced with J2SE 1.5.x aka J5SE, I made it a delightful habit to use it. You know what I am talking about, right? For example previously I used to write: private gbWay() { ....

February 3rd, 2007 I recently faced a strange situation where my mail server was showing over 700 emails but Microsoft Outlook was failing to download them with timeout error. The problem was that it wasn't downloading even a single email.

November 18th, 2007 Monitoring MySQL queries is a favorite pastime of MySQL administrators especially for performance reasons. Here is a simple bash script to monitor long running MySQL queries in realtime using the ubiquitous 'show processlist'.

September 3rd, 2006 Single quotes are a royal pain when using WordPress to post your code. WordPress, in its infinite wisdom, does some really bad things to it.

January 29th, 2009 Covering the most popular Linux shells (such as bash, ash, tcsh, ksh, korn, and zsh), this reference book shows how to use commands to create scripts within each shell and demonstrates practical applications for shell scripts (including retrieving information from Web sites and sending automated reports via e-mail). For each shell, the author discusses the commands available and explains how to use these commands to create scripts that can automate common functions and reports.

March 15th, 2009 Firefox 3 onwards has a nice feature which warns you of sites which are suspected of forgery or attacks (through trojans, malware etc.). Unfortunately the feature is too intrusive and warns you repeatedly, nags you to death is a better phrase to describe it, even when you have confirmed that the site is genuine.

July 19th, 2007 Everything you ever wanted to know and should know about Java Runtime.exec(). This old but still golden article is an excellent guide to using Runtime.exec().

May 16th, 2006 This is a simple tutorial to help you to view new blog articles (from your favorite blogs) directly from your Firefox toolbar. Suggestion: Please maximize browser window for better viewing.

July 21st, 2005 Angus McLaren at TechRepublic writes cluelessly: Anyone who claims to hate Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS or any other operating system is not a true techie or network guru. You don't ever bash the OS, in fact if the OS crashes then it's your fault not the OS; Why didn't you make sure that it was using the right drivers, or the hardware is compatible or blah this and blah that, and so the list goes.

May 19th, 2005 My friend is making a large document in Microsoft Excel 20 or so columns. He found that he was forced to go back everytime to the top of the document to figure out what the column represents.

February 16th, 2009 With most of you using Linux players like XMMS, Audacious or BMP desperately miss out equalizer presets of Winamp. For a die-hard music-aficionado who loves to hear Miles Davis' Kind of Blue in pure Jazz can never compromise with an equalizer.

June 12th, 2007 WordPress in its infinite wisdom consumes one dash ( - ) and converts the other when there are two consecutive dashes like this: --. The solution is to use - twice instead of dash.