E4rat Seriously Cuts Down on Linux Boot Time With a Few Simple Commands
E4rat Seriously Cuts Down on Linux Boot Time With a Few Simple Commands.
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ppss – (Distributed) Parallel Processing Shell Script – parallel processing made easy! – Google Project Hosting
PPSS is a Bash shell script that executes commands, scripts or programs in parallel. It is designed to make full use of current multi-core CPUs. It will detect the number of available CPUs and start a separate job for each CPU core. It will also use hyper threading by default. via ppss – (Distributed) Parallel …
Speed up find & exec
From “man find” & stackexchange -exec command {} + This variant of the -exec action runs the specified command on the selected files, but the command line is built by appending each selected file name at the end; the total number of invocations of the command will be much less than the number of matched …
PostgreSQL: Documentation: Manuals: PostgreSQL 9.0: Window Functions
A window function performs a calculation across a set of table rows that are somehow related to the current row. This is comparable to the type of calculation that can be done with an aggregate function. But unlike regular aggregate functions, use of a window function does not cause rows to become grouped into a …
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“I hope IPv6 never catches on”
I hope IPv6 never catches on via apenwarr – Business is Programming. Interesting article on how to use SRV DNS records to extend the IPv4 space.
Android May Be the Greatest Legal Destruction of Wealth in History
Bill Gurley thinks that Android is an unstoppable freight train that will prevail against all its rivals. For Google, Android is not even a product with a business plan. It’s just a weapon at the service of their master domination strategy, a way to destroy any potential threats that may eventually kill their search monster. …
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Did the Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace?
Did the Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace?.
Manage Your Performance with Cgroups and Projects
Manage Your Performance with Cgroups and Projects – O’Reilly Broadcast.
A tip for using mod_proxy on development machines
If you are using mod_proxy in Apache, remember that it will “cache” errors. In certain instances you won’t want this – such as internal development. So you might want to do something like: ProxyPass / http://localhost:8888/ retry=0
bash – Any shortcut for “cd ..” ? – Super User
Activate the autocd option (Bash 4+ only). It will let you type .. for cd .. and will actually let you use any directory as a command name and will cd to it: shopt -s autocd via bash – Any shortcut for “cd ..” ? – Super User.