Script to kill Resource Hungry Processes and Save from System Hang

September 21st, 2009 As a part of monitoring Linux system you often need to know about the currently running processes in Linux systems. Once you know the process running on the Linux system you can kill the process that are slowing down your system.

March 27th, 2009 As its now official that Firefox has more bugs than IE, Safari and Chrome combined, we have more reasons to be worried about its stability while we are doing any web based work. Talk of dependence and there we have it on Firefox because others are just not upto it.

April 24th, 2009 Always but always our laptops run out of juice just when we needed to make the vital presentation at the seminar or had something really worth doing. It doesn't depend upon the models these days because even a Macbook Pro can leave you stupid if not religiously charged every day and to the full.

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.

February 7th, 2007 As a javascript developer using onload often you will find that other script authors too love to use onload. Unfortunately onload accepts a function name and your reassigning will prevent others from using onload.

November 13th, 2007 PHP supports shared memory which can be used to store and retrieve data across processes. This is also another alternative way to communicate between php scripts.

October 8th, 2007 PmWiki is a popular wiki software which uses the file system to store wiki pages. We use for our intranet and to document our processes and systems.

June 3rd, 2008 Semaphore is used to restrict access to shared resources, such as shared memory or to limit the number of processes that may simultaneously use a resource, in a multi-process or multi-threaded environment. In php using semaphore a process must wait while accessing a shared resource currently used by another process.

December 23rd, 2008 Task manager is a very strong utility tool for Windows users. You can see the processes, prioritize them, end inactive or non-responding processes and many more things.

December 15th, 2007 BEA SmartConnect 3.0 aims to reduce total cost of ownership and time-to-market for ERP applications by allowing rapid development of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) based applications. BEA SmartConnect 3.0 consists of complete connectivity solution designed to allow service-enabling enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications to quickly build new service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based applications.

April 20th, 2008 AWK is an extremely versatile and powerful language for processing files and text data. Often you can use awk to perform complex tasks on Unix / Linux / Mac OS command line which would otherwise take a full-fledged programming effort.

November 2nd, 2005 Almost all of us have been pained by telemarketers. You probably have realized by now that they follow a script which guide the conversation and make it one-sided, in their favor and against you.

June 23rd, 2007 In directories under subversion there may be files which you do not want to add to subversion. Normally such files would show in subversion status (svn stat) with ? in front of them.

January 7th, 2009 Twitter has become phenomenally popular around the world. So if you are an avid blogger and a twitterer yourself, then you must be wondering how to synchronize them both? Here is a simple trick that will add twitter gadget to your blog so that you can be updated on both in a single window.

February 13th, 2008 Please read the original article - How To: Load Balancing & Failover With Dual/ Multi WAN / ADSL / Cable Connections on Linux. It contains detailed information with a sample script.