Coder's Talk

Hahahah... while reading my email, I receive this funny cartoon especially the Version Two about computer virus. Well, you cannot do this if you are using linux in your office. heheh Version One Version Two Smile and have fun!!

Just my testing Linux bash script code to compare PID... I'm not really using it yet. But I'm thinking if I can use it to verify that there is running process with the same PID in /var/run/appname.pid on the running process snapshot (ps). if there is no such PID, maybe I can simply delete the .pid file. And the process which will check for this file can restart as usual. Here's the content of my ~/pidcmp script: #!/bin/sh thepid=`cat /var/run/ppp0.pid` echo "the pid is $thepid" spsaux=`ps aux | grep [p]ppd` okflag=0 gettx () { local IFS=" " i=0 for tx in $1; do myarr[$i]=$tx let i+=1 done } NEWLINE=' '; oldifs=$IFS IFS=$NEWLINE for line in $spsaux; do # echo "line: $line" gettx $line foundpid=${myarr[1]} if [ $foundpid == $thepid ]; then echo "the pid is equal!!" okflag=1 fi done #echo "foundpid: ${myarr[1]}" IFS=$oldifs echo "okflag = $okflag" This is ju...

Since my post about the Battle Programmer Shirase videos , I'm searching if I can download all episodes... Then I found one good fast completed torrent download... You can get it too at http://www.animesuki.com/series.php/258.html My torrent downloads will finish soon...

I'm putting this here just for my reference. Feel free to ask me on the comment section if you don't understand what I'm talking about... Please note that I'm using TS-7260 SBC from embedded arm which I've installed ts-7000 linux (debian-arm based) on SD card. I'm using this to have wireless connection fron my Rain Gauge device to the internet. To make internet connection via Maxis GPRS on a Linux computer with ppp dial up connection , we just need some files which is: /etc/ppp/peers/maxisGPRS /etc/ppp/pap-secrets /etc/ppp/chat/maxisGPRS /etc/ppp/chat/gprs-disconnect and make sure the ppp and chat package is installed on that box. To install ppp on debian, you can use $ apt-get install ppp Here is the contents of /etc/ppp/peers/maxisGPRS hide-password noauth connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/chat/maxisGPRS" disconnect "/usr/sbin/chat -V -s -S -f /etc/ppp/chat/gprs-disconnect" debug crtscts /dev/ttyTS0 9600 defaultroute noipdefault use...

In this Information Technology age, we have a lot of choices from hardware to software in order to solve our daily issues. When we need software, just google up and seek on what you need, maybe you got a free version or sometimes cracked by someone else... It doesn't matter. The only things that matter is, do you really trust the software that you recently downloaded won't do anything wrong to you? If you have no worries about it before, you may need to read this Jeff Atwood's post about A Question of Programming Ethics on his CodingHorror blog. THen you should think again...

I just noticed this anime about programmer and programming. Pretty cool because previously I've watched japanese anime about cars which influence people to be like the anime heroes like Inital-D and so on. But that works for car lover. And what about coders or programmers? Worry not, here it comes... Battle Programmer Shirase. I think I'm really late to know this because it have already aired since 2003. Wow... The story of Battle Programmer Shirase revolves around a "freelance programmer" named Akira Shirase. He's a very talented, yet mysterious computer programmer. Because of his incredible abilities, he's contacted by several individuals (curiously, all of them are very similar persons named Akizuki Kaoru) to do all sorts of strange computer-related hacking/security jobs. He's a very quiet guy who lives alone in a small apartment near his niece's house. At first, the episodes revolved around some freelance jobs that highlighted his abilities - howev...

Wireless have been widely used in houses and offices. I'm also using the Linksys WRT54G in my house to allow me to access internet where ever I am in my house. Whether I'm in the living room, on my study room or even at my balcony. However, as my house have 2 floor, I found some spots where the signal is so weak... So, I'm searching on how to boost up the signal without having to buy new Access Point. Then I found this cheap hack to boost my wireless signal . It is a Parabolic Wifi Booster. I believe this hacks works well as it have many versions and have been widely used by others... You can have a look at this Ez-12 Parabolic Reflector Template that use the same technique. Anyway, I'm gonna try it myself and will post the result soon...