This article requires the reader to have at least some basic understanding of harddisk partitions and MBR. If you are one of the rare unfortunate blokes who have got their partition table screwed up due to a mis-sized extended partition, fret not, for there’s a very simple-to-use tool that can fix things for you. I […]
Category: Coding & Tech
Software development quirks and technologies that interest me.
Life without jQuery…
Posted on under Coding & Tech — Leave a comment…is unimaginable.
A new init system in Linux
Posted on under Coding & Tech, Open-Source — Leave a commentIt was bound to happen some day. The existing init system in use by most of the present Linux distros is really not leveraging the performance capabilities of modern hardware to the fullest. Spawning processes one-by-one to get the system up and running costs a lot of precious time, when it is possible to do […]
TestDisk — A life saver
Posted on under Coding & Tech — 2 CommentsTurning on your computer one not-so-fine day just to discover an entire partition (drive on harddisk) gone is nothing short of a nightmare potent enough to give you a mild heart attack. Unfortunately, exactly that happened to me yesterday. An ardent distro hopper that I am, I recently installed (K)Ubuntu 11.10 on my laptop. Things […]
Epoch
Posted on under Coding & Tech — 2 CommentsINTERESTING How you determine your age? I was born in 1987 and this is 2011, so I am 24 years old right now. How most computer systems determine your age? Time passed since 1st January 1970 till now (2011) minus Time passed since 1st January 1970 till when you were born (1987) equals (well, again) […]