There are many things we can do on daily basis which can make our lives better and make future better for our kids and ourselves. Most of these things are overlooked or not stressed enough. Lets start with cheap way to save some money and make world a better place.

Replace all the bulbs [...]

You type: rm * -f
You get: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
Reason: in shell when you do * after rm and get Argument list too long, your shell actually expands that * and puts all the filenames after rm and since length of the command line is limited, you end up getting [...]

One very interesting thing I noticed with MySQL was that if you delete a database, ibdata file doesn’t shrink by that much space to minimize disk usage. I deleted the database and checked usage of /usr/local/mysql/var folder and noticed that ibdata file is still the same size. So the problem I face now [...]

Interview with creator of Folding@home – Vijay Pande. Richard Marks of SCEA’s research and development team was kind enough to answer some Playstation 3 related questions.
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I have been running Folding@home on my Playstation 3 since they released the new Firmware. It was only then I actually heard about [...]