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RXVT Customization with ~/.Xresources 27 Jul 2013 | 01:44 pm
AskApache.com After many years of using all sorts of terminal emulators, from xterm to the Gnome terminal, to KDE Konsole to xfce4-terminal, lxterminal, vte, yakuake, rote, roxterm, putty, sakura, te...
MySQL Performance Tuning Scripts and Know-How 11 Jul 2013 | 12:33 pm
AskApache.com Unless you are a total linux-freak-guru like myself, and even if you are, it can be enormously challenging and somewhat overwhelming to locate and eliminate MySQL bottlenecks. While man...
Building strace-plus 26 Jun 2013 | 03:12 pm
AskApache.com strace+ is an improved version of strace that collects stack traces associated with each system call. Since system calls require an expensive user-kernel context switch, they are often ...
King Penguin Linux Notebook 5 Jun 2013 | 09:06 pm
The machine itself is super super ultra-thin, wafer thin, very cool looking. It's crazy light, I was amazed how slick it looked when it arrived. Huge amount of open-source hardware/chipsets/etc.. The ...
Alienware M18xR2 Review of Dells fastest Laptop 5 Jun 2013 | 05:57 am
Clevo > Dell > Alienware. This is the best of the best. I've had mine for about a year now and have had 0 issues with it. It's fast, as in crazy unreal fast. It's not a huge server slice, but it acts ...
Show Events that Occurred on this day in the Past 17 May 2013 | 07:15 am
This simple linux function will output a list (usually about 4-10) of events that occurred in the past on the same day. So if you run on May 16 it will show you past events that happened on that date....
Bash alternative to Reflector for Ranking Mirrors 7 May 2013 | 11:20 am
A pure bash alternative to the python reflector, using curl, xargs, and sort for ranking Arch Linux mirrors. Nice and simple. Short and sweet. The post Bash alternative to Reflector for Ranking Mirr...
Htaccess Rewrite for Redirecting Uppercase to Lowercase 30 Apr 2013 | 06:21 pm
Want to redirect all links with any uppercase characters to lowercase using pure mod_rewrite within an .htaccess file? Sure why not! OR how to use RewriteMap and mod_speling for those with access to h...
Separate favicons for the Frontend and Backend 30 Apr 2013 | 12:25 pm
Here's a nifty little idea I had that has some merit and is super easy. Separate favicons for separate areas of a site. Basically, I can't live without Firefox or Chrome and the way they use multiple ...
PHP fsockopen for FAST DNS lookups over UDP 28 Apr 2013 | 10:03 pm
While reading up on gethostbyaddr on PHP.net, I saw a nice idea for using fsockopen to connect over UDP port 53 to any Public DNS server, like Google DNS 8.8.8.8, and sending the reverse addr lookup i...
