Monthly Archives: September 2009

In 1997, two university students had a very simple plan for their graduate project—build a rocket capable of inserting a 1-kg pico-satellite into orbit...

Welcome to another instalment of CodeSport. In this month’s column, we continue our discussion on the false sharing issue in multi-threaded applications. We’ll also discuss priority inversion and possible techniques to deal with it.

[The Joy of Programming] Can typing mistakes (typos) cause bugs? Yes, they can! We’ll look at some common C programming mistakes in this column.

Presenting a step-by-step guide on how to set up a Fedora mirror.

Here’s how to write a few simple scripts and then schedule them to run at a specified time using the at utility.

This article explains some free and open source tools like GParted, g4u and partimage, which are used for partitioning, disk cloning, partition backup/restore, etc.

Let’s get started with NumPy, which is supposed to be “the fundamental package needed for scientific computing with Python.”

Let us explore cloud computing and learn how to set up the cloud that can virtualise your USB device.

In the previous article in this series, we looked at allow rules in an SELinux policy. This month we’ll discuss SELinux error logs in order to decipher them and take corrective action.

With the increasing volume and complexity of information that gets churned out these days, the need to optimise storage and retrieval becomes an important aspect to consider. In this article, the author sheds some light on each layer of a tiered storage infrastructure — storage, server and applications.