Monthly Archives: April 2011
Ease Your Ubuntu Experience
So you have made the leap, and are flying away from Windows... welcome to Ubuntu! You must have performed a few common activities like...
Building the Cloud with Open Source and Open Standards
Open source software and standards are not just beneficial, but highly essential for a heterogeneous, shared and scalable environment such as the "cloud". What's...
CNN-IBN’s Rocking Affair with PostgreSQL
Developers and companies that build or deploy software solutions for websites that have to be available 24/7 can rely on fool-proof open source database...
Getting Started with Inotify
Inotify is a Linux kernel feature that provides an event-driven framework for applications to monitor changes in the filesystem. This article demonstrates how to...
Tracking the DNA of Your Android Code
In my previous article, we explored a process that developer teams can follow to manage the source code for software-related product development, using the...
Better Queries with MySQL, Part 3: The MyISAM Storage Engine
MyISAM is MySQL's default storage engine, and is probably most commonly used by new adopters of MySQL. The objective of this article is to...
Device Drivers, Part 5: Character Device Files — Creation & Operations
This article is a continuation of the series on Linux device drivers, and carries on the discussion on character drivers and their implementation.
In my...
Kernel Debugging Using Kprobe and Jprobe
Debugging is like plumbing; it involves fixing difficult, hidden problems -- so, besides the vital experience, both debuggers and plumbers must have a specialised...
Sed Explained, Part 1
UNIX-like operating systems have numerous powerful utilities accessible via the command-line and shell-scripting, which are flexible enough to operate in a variety of problematic...
Securing Apache, Part 8: DoS & DDoS Attacks
In this part of the series, we focus on DoS/DDoS attacks, which have been among the major threats to Web servers since the beginning...
