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surki

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    Comment #14306276

    Another related tool I found interesting: perf c2c This will let us find the false sharing cost (cache contention etc). https://joemario.github.io/blog/2016/09/01/c2c-blog/

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    Comment #13576821

    I do something like find $PWD -type f -ls | awk '{gsub("/", ";", $11); print $11" "$7}' | flamegraph.pl --title "Disk usage" --countname "bytes" --nametype "file" --width 1900 --mi…

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    Comment #8617077

    I have been using Global for about 6 years now. Mostly I use it in emacs (though at times I use the CLI version). I use it in Linux and Windows. I mostly work on C/C++ (Linux kerne…

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    Comment #3287166

    What you describe is implemented in these libraries: libduma ( http://duma.sourceforge.net/ ) and efence ( http://linux.die.net/man/3/efence ) They also have buffer underflow prote…

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    Comment #3099323

    Doing it in C with mixed assembly [surki@linux-vrse tt]$ cat | gcc -nostdlib -x c - -o helloworld #define SYS_exit 1 #define SYS_write 4 #define stdout 1 int strlen(const char *str…

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    Comment #2130220

    For moving or persisting X applications you would need something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmove

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    Comment #2054945

    Probably you are using x selection buffer for copy/paste. But if you want to pick up stuff from X "clipboard" buffer, you would need xsel or something like that. Wanderlust is quit…

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    Comment #2054782

    I use a similar setup with urxvt and stumpwm. In stumpwm I have ;; Launch emacs (defcommand emacs () () (run-or-raise "urxvt -title emacs -e screen -U -dRR -S emacs -c ~/.screenrc.…

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    Comment #2048418

    I think "The Man from Earth" was also partially distributed through torrents. At least that's what the wikipedia claims - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_Earth

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    Comment #1835504

    I use something like this to watch the processes that are running or waiting for IO watch -n 1 ps -eo pid,ppid,wchan=WIDE-WCHAN-COLUMN,stat,command r

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    Comment #1830824

    You probably want to use tsocks. It LD_PRELOADs the socket related functions and does the necessary work. http://tsocks.sourceforge.net/faq.php

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    Comment #1817559

    I starting using magit recently, but I am still to get used to it. Here is a link discussing about git support in Emacs that I found useful: http://alexott.net/en/writings/emacs-vc…

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    Comment #1803278

    How about doing something with imagemagick or mencoder? I think video encoding/decoding gives a nice balance between disk and cpu usage.

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    Comment #1802630

    Well, the example(at least the first one) in that video is bit skewed. First, he runs gzip and then immediately runs 'parallel gzip' without dropping disk caches. So in the later c…

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    Comment #1643359

    I strongly recommend having a look at the Gnu Screen customization in Ubuntu Server. http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2008/12/ubuntu-server-include...

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    Comment #1639757

    I see, thanks for the update. It would have helped if the title was Fennec 2.0 Alpha, not just Fennec Alpha. I would give it a try sometime this weekend.

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    Comment #1639482

    Am I missing something? I remember trying this on a Nokia N810 about 1.5 years back, was quite slow, I gave up. Looks like they are still working on it. http://talk.maemo.org/showt…

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    Comment #1624212

    autossh http://www.debianadmin.com/autossh-automatically-restart-ssh...

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    Comment #1572162

    > Not perfect, but I find it's more natural to write in org-mode Do you have any specifics on the problems you faced? I produced my master thesis entirely using orgmode without any…

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    Comment #1567764

    Check EmacsWiki as well: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ArtistMode Especially integration with Ido mode.