So I’m starting a blog so i can keep track of tips. tricks and shortcuts I find/come up with or utilize during my daily work as an unappreciated IT drone. yes there’s hundreds of thousands of other blogs. but I have web space + bandwidth etc etc. so yeah.
This blog is hosted on quad quad core 24 GB ram gigabit connect machine using nginx, php-fpm, mysql 5.5. overkill? hell no. maybe I will get famous and get 10 million hits a day :D…… hey I can dream right?
Today I got a new VPS… well great but now I need to install a bunch of new packages and libraries and helper apps. how do I remember it all? did I have python 2.6 or 2.7? not to mention which boost libs did I install? well here.s a couple of ways to deal with…
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems. Some people, when faced with a problem, think, “I know, I’ll use #binary.” Now they have 10 problems. Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, “I know, I’ll use #threads,” and then two they hav…
Ubuntu 16.04, code-named “Xenial Xerus“, is here and its amazing! many new changes, many new additions and some removals of old outdated software/functionality. Unity has been polished and streamlined along with the much maligned ads have been removed! so lets get into the details. Snap Packages Ubuntu 16.04 LTS introduces a new application format, the…
New York attorney general’s office is investigating Facebook for harvesting the email contacts of about 1.5 million users without their consent. “Facebook has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of respect for consumers’ information while at the same time profiting from mining that data.” – New York Attorney General Letitia James The social network confirmed in April…
Google is now Alphabet!? Ok so what is alphabet and why am I saying google is now alphabet? Well according to abc.xyz Alphabet Inc. will replace Google Inc. as the publicly-traded entity and all shares of Google will automatically convert into the same number of shares of Alphabet, with all of the same rights. Google…
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