Off to Chennai...life's calling
Enable/Disable CPUs dynamically in Linux
Enable/Disable Multi CPUs in GNU/Linux
This is a wonderful feature of the Linux kernel. Being able to dynamically enable and disable multiple CPUs (all this without rebooting).
To check if you have multiple CPUs
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name …
WPA2 on Linux
Setting up WPA2 on Linux
Recently Binand pointed me to DD-WRT (free Linux based firmware for Linksys' WRT54G Series). Since I owned that series of the router, I installed it on my router. It looks really very cool especially with those awesome javascript effects. It also came with support for …
Thejaswi.info revamped
Thejaswi.info revamped
Django has been evolving quietly but steadily. 6 months back when I deployed my site, I gambled and used newforms-admin to be able to experiment. Later, I realized that my blog had a few readers and experimentation would piss them off. Despite this, I managed to redesign …
Learning Python 1
Useful yet underutilized commands
Useful yet underutilized commands
Recently, I have started looking towards system programming (thanks to my arm processor project). While I was glancing through the manual pages, I noticed these commands that are extremely useful but rarely used (or probably implicity used).
Here they are:
- csplit: split a file into sections …
A USB Drive full of viruses
Mod-Wsgi or Mod-Python?
Mod_WSGI or Mod_Python?
Recently, I had the opportunity of deploying django apps that would receive heavy traffic and yet be lite on the memory because I was using a 256 MB virtual private server.
Django has two options:
I have had bad experiences with Mod_Python with issues ranging …
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Ramblings on Fossconf 08
Ramblings on Fossconf Chennai'08
Went to Chennai to attend my second FOSS conference. Though Fossconf 08 did not live up to my expectations, it was a perfect conference for first time speakers and absolute newbies who had no idea of what Foss was. I was really impressed by the project …