Byte Order! Well, this is one thing many of us have kinda forgotten and/or don’t bother. Well, after all this is more on how the hardware works and not on how the software is written. Of course, this needs to be taken into consideration in network programming as well but again not so much in […]
I have been playing around with serial cables the last couple of days. One of my major task I was into is to connect a embedded box with my laptop. First trouble was my laptop does not have a serial port to accept connection. But the bigger trouble was whether the cable provided by the […]
Now now.. one of the best things that has happened to kernel programmers (like me on Linux) is the stability of the desktop virtualization. I am mean with super awesome stability and features of virtualization softwares like VMWare & VirtualBox the otherwise scary kernel debugging has taken a new sweet turn. I still remember how […]
Ubuntu comes with a pre-locked ‘root’ user. That is, root account is not accessible, not login-able but exists nevertheless. The default user (or the primary user) owns the sudo rights. Hence this user has all rights to perform “on behalf” of the root. But still root account, sometimes, is very important and useful. The question […]
I wanted to try my hand on firefox plugin programming. And, guess what, I did! 🙂 This is why, what & how I achieved. Typically my technical blogs contain a lot of information just the way I prefer to read/learn from other blogs. So you can expect details… details… details.. and more words! 🙂 Well, […]