It happens often that I forget to change the default character set of a database to utf8 and so find out late in the development cycle that many of my fields are based on non utf8 character sets (mostly latin1). Then I go in and modify each field in turn using ALTER TABLE [table] MODIFY [...]
I wanted to convert some video files on my Linux system to the xvid codec so that I could see them on my PS3. The solution I found was using the mencoder package. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 [...]
As part of a crusade to find bugs in a C++ program running on a Solaris system I needed to find out information about all the threads belonging to a certain process. The program is written the way it is because you rarely need thread info about all threads running in a system but rather [...]