Some Nifty udev Rules and Examples
Connecting flash drives, hard disks, cameras or mobile phones to your Linux system has never been so easy and manageable, thanks to udev, developed by Greg Kroah-Hartman, Kay Sievers and Dan Stekloff. First…
A Beginner’s Guide to Grep: Basics and Regular Expressions
Grep is one among the system administrator’s “Swiss Army knife” set of tools, and is extremely useful to search for strings and patterns in a group of files, or even sub-folders. This article…
Bandwidth Throttling with NetEM Network Emulation
NetEM (Network Emulation) provides functionality for testing protocols, by emulating the network properties of wide-area networks. This article describes the use of NetEM in benchmarking the performance of a Web application, simulating Internet-like…
Dissecting Instruction Level Parallelism
Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP) technology is often used to improve the performance of embedded processors in application-specific domains like Digital Signal Processing. Today’s VLIW (Very Large Instruction Word) DSP architectures are specially designed…
Extending Python via Shared Libraries
Python is one of the most popular programming languages ever — its great productivity, flexibility and general-purpose nature efficiently address areas ranging from Internet applications to system uses. Much of Python’s power comes…
Automate Testing Web Apps with WebTest
WebTest lets developers write XML-based test suites so quickly, it’s almost fun! Virtually everyone uses a browser every time the computer is switched on — the browser has become an integral part of…
Write Your Next Program on Linux
Quite a few colleges and schools still teach C/C++/Java programming on Windows — and even worse, on DOS (using Turbo C/C++)! GNU/Linux provides a first class operating system, replete with support for dozens…







