The insights of a Quirky Tech Enthousiast on his journey through the fast paced IT landscape.
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I stumbled upon a tool with high potential when tracing/profiling under linux. I’ll immediately take you to an excerpt from the Valgrind Quickstart:
The Valgrind tool suite provides a number of debugging and profiling tools. The most popular is Memcheck, a memory checking tool which can detect many common memory errors such as:
- Touching memory you shouldn’t (eg. overrunning heap block boundaries, or reading/writing freed memory).
- Using values before they have been initialized.
- Incorrect freeing of memory, such as double-freeing heap blocks.
- Memory leaks.
Continue reading “Valgrind : profiling memory leaks under linux”
Issue
If you’re using an icon theme other than the default for Ubuntu causes OpenOffice to have no icons in the menus or on the toolbars, causing the toolbars actually have the tooltip text as the button’s text (example: Export to PDF, Print File Directly, Spellcheck, etc).
Workaround
Install the “openoffice.org-style-default” package, which installs the “openoffice.org-style-andromeda” package.
OR: Use the default Human theme for Ubuntu.
sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-style-default
References
Ubuntu forums
Launchpad
This post is meant to share a small trick that I often use when installing linux on unknown systems. In my opinion, one of the biggest downsides in linux is setting up your monitor. Imagine starting out with linux, cause you hear it was great, installed it… and got an ugly looking desktop because the Xorg.conf is has the default properties.
Then you have a lot of evangelists saying you can perfectly calculate these values, but the thing that pops into my mind at this point is “user friendliness”.
A lot of things said to come down to the trick:
A additional & simple step that might ease up things for you… 😉
Jeff Alexander blogged about the setup behind microsoft.com. It got the slashdot effect, and his blog is apparently (temporarily?) suspended. You can find the blog post below, as I dug it from out of the google caches.
Microsoft.com: What’s the story?
If you’ve ever wondered how microsoft.com uses our technology then read on. I recently came across some good information from the folks over at the Operations team at Microsoft.com. The thread basically talks about how we use IIS, Firewalls and Windows Server 2008. I think as we come up to launch next year it’s a really good and quick insight into what they do and how they do it. So enjoy the reading and let me know what you think..Pretend I’ve asked about how they protect our sites…At this point we still don’t use firewalls for MS.COM sites and don’t have any plans on the books to put them in place. Here is the short answer as to why:
“Character is like a tree and reputation, like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” Abraham Lincoln
Storytime!
I started blogging about eight months ago. Time has flown by, and I’ve learned a few things about writing and publishing. But the reason I started the blog, was to keep track of the things I solved and to publish those findings so that other may benefit from this wisdom. The saying “no need to invent the wheel twice comes into place here.
As the end of the year is closing towards us, and so are the deadlines for the cases we were giving during my courses. One of those tasks is to do the project management of a (dummy) project. This involves -a lot- of email conversions to get the (internally) distributed tasks aligned. These email threads often contain tasks and questions which need to be reviewed and replied to. The combination of several of causes it to be easily overseen or become to complicated.
Continue reading “Why should you introduce blogging within your company?”
Need some cheering up, do the following commands on your ubuntu system:
Source:
Linux moo
This post is meant as a follow-up to an earlier article with the subject “Why are manhole covers round?“. It’ll feature some additional “Microsoft Hiring Questions”. Here are my personal “favorites” :
Riddles
Intro
A while ago I read an article about hiring questions . A small excerpt of this article aroused my curiosity:
I avoid asking “Microsoft” type questions. I was once interviewed for a job, and I got the litany of them from the hiring manager. For example, “Why are manhole covers round” type questions.
So WHY are they round?
Continue reading “Why are manhole covers round?”
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