I use Org-Mode excessively for taking notes, publishing, and even presentation. As a programmer, most of the stuff I write has snippets of source code from various languages. I always feel that well formatted, syntax highlighted code is easy to read in published documents. It is possible to mark a ...
I enjoy reading XKCD. One of the recent comic that I enjoyed the most was published last week, titled "Permanence", that was about naming servers.
One of the reasons that I enjoyed this the most was due to the fact that I can totally correlate this comic to my behavior ...
Today, I planned to go back to the basics by taking 6.001 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs offered by MIT OpenCourseWare. I'll save the reason behind it for another post.
For running the programs that are used in the class, I decided to use MIT/GNU Scheme ...
I have been following Test-Driven Development for a few years now. Even though TDD is widespread, often I come across a few friends who aren’t very familiar with TDD approach. It took a while for me to really appreciate TDD since I was introduced to it. When I demonstrated ...
If you have ever wanted to get the command line options that were passed
to a running Solaris process, you might have noticed that the output of
command line arguments from ps is truncated to 80 characters.
Looking into /usr/include/sys/procfs.h will reveal the reason why!
This ...
I had a previous
post
on how to turn on core files for set-UID, set-GID processes under Linux.
Recently we ran into the same problem on Solaris. To turn on core files
for set-id processes, use coreadm.
$ pfexec coreadm -e global-setid
Please keep in mind that these core files can ...