Quick notes on Win7 SSD Trim
Just my quick notes on checking SSD Trim support is working on your Win7 OS...
Basic Netmask address notation for IP address
A quick note on the quick notation for IP addresses and its associated netmask...
ifort error IPO link and multi-file optimization compilation code 1
To fix the IPO link error when trying to compile with the Intel fortan compiler fort, error on compilation as follows :-
Quick command line MYSQL backup or copy your mysql database
Just a quick note on how to backup or copy your database through the command line...
Quickly comment out block of code in Python
While debugging a python module I needed to remove sections of code for quick functionality testing. For those not familiar with python the hash (#) character is used to comment out a single line of code, so how do you comment out a large block of code ?
Dynamic module loading with Python import
Lets say you don't know the module name before your program starts or your program needs to dynamically link to a module based on a specific version number. In other words you want a generic way of loading a module dynamically without initially knowing the name of the module before the program starts. This can be done easily in python with the following import syntax...
Find your ethernet driver under Debian
The following is a break down of the various Debian Etch commands that can be used to figure out what ethernet driver you are currently running...
Install vmxnet network driver on your Debian VM
After installing Debian 4 RC2 (Etch) as a VM under VMWare ESX 3.5 it was decided to change the default PCNet32 virtual network driver to the VMWare tools open source vmxnet driver to see if this alleviated a performance response timing issue with some peripheral network servers...
Linux TCP socket guide
For those interested in programming TCP/IP sockets under linux the following links are some solid articles that I have come across on this subject. They cover such topics as blocking and non-blocking TCP sockets, TCP keepalive uses, and some linux socket pitfalls to watch out for...
