Yesterday, I was trying to get the running time of a program. time gives you only limited precision (second level (with 2 decimal digits)) So, i wrote up this script to do find the running time in bash: #Find the runtime of program wget for i in {1..100} ; do s=`date +A%S*1000000000+A%N`; start=$((`echo $s | [...]
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Using Firefox/Flock for Google Chrome like features.
I’ve been a Firefox user from 5 years and i have preferred it over other browsers. Recently i have also been trying Chrome and the Firefox based Flock browser. Chrome is a new browser with loads of new features and this blog post is about how to achieve some of those things using Firefox. The [...]
Eclipse Ganymede
The new Eclipse Ganymede is full of new features that make development very easy. In this blog item, i shall list some of the Ganymede features that bring value to my developement. Breadcrumb: The eclipse breadcrumb makes it easy to browse packages, classes and members. Different highlight colors for read and write occurrences of variables. [...]
VNC over ssh
Here is what i do to connect to my remote ubuntu machine. The first step is to configure the ubuntu machine/server for remote desktop. This can be done by going to “System -> Preferences -> Remote Desktop” and setting the Remote Desktop Preferences to Sharing -> Allow other users to view your desktop (Checked) Allow [...]