Google staff dropping Windows for Macs, Linux PCs

2010-06-02 1 min read Linux Uncategorized

For those who keep saying this is not the year of linux and probably it will never be 🙂

Google is abandoning the use of Windows by its staff as it\’s too much of a security threat, multiple staffers said Monday night. Recent concerns about Chinese hacks have the search firm requiring either a Mac or Linux for all new recruits to provide better security. Those who want Windows now often require explicit approval from executives and may not have any choice on desktops where it\’s only an option for notebooks.

[link to original | source: LXer Linux News

Google said to be moving away from Windows internally, Mac and Linux systems on tap instead (engadget.com)
Google revamps new employee computer policy; Windows now out of the equation (edibleapple.com)
Who Needs Windows? Google Starts Putting Their Computers Where Their Mouth Is (techcrunch.com)

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Google\’s RE2 regular expression library

2010-05-30 0 min read Bash

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<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/google" title="Google" rel="homepage" href="http://google.com">Google has announced the release of its RE2 library under a BSDish license. ”At Google, we use <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/regular_expression" title="Regular expression" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression">regular expressions as part of the interface to many external and internal systems, including Code Search, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/sawzall" title="Sawzall (programming language)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawzall_%28programming_language%29">Sawzall, and <a class="zem_slink" title="Bigtable" rel="homepage" href="http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable.html">Bigtable. Those systems process large amounts of <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/data" title="Data" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data">data; exponential <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/runtime" title="Run time (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_time_%28computing%29">run time would be a serious problem. On a more practical note, these are <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/thread" title="Thread (computer science)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_%28computer_science%29">multithreaded <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/cplusplus" title="C++" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B">C++ programs with fixed-size stacks: the unbounded stack usage in typical regular expression implementations leads to stack overflows and server crashes. To solve both problems, we’ve built a new regular expression engine, called RE2, which is based on <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/automata_theory" title="Automata theory" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automata_theory">automata theory and guarantees that searches complete in <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/linear_time" title="Linear time" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_time">linear time with respect to the size of the input and in a fixed amount of stack space.” More information can be found on the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/re2/" target="_blank">RE2 project page.<h6 class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles by Zemanta <ul class="zemanta-article-ul"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://glinden.blogspot.com/2010/03/gfs-and-its-evolution.html">GFS and its evolution (glinden.blogspot.com) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://research.swtch.com/2010/03/regular-expression-article-3.html">Regular Expression Article #3 (research.swtch.com) <div class="zemanta-pixie"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" title="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/456fa268-f416-4aec-ae05-4d1a9c9c2712/"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/reblog_b65.png" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" /><span class="zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog">

prints line numbers

2010-05-27 1 min read Bash

$ nl

others:
perl -ne ’print ”$. – $_”’ $1
grep -n . $1
perl -pe ’print ”$. ”’ $1
cat -n $1

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10 Wordpress Traffic Builder Plugins That Work

2010-05-26 2 min read Uncategorized

This article covers several useful <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/wordpress" title="WordPress" rel="homepage" href="http://wordpress.org">WordPress traffic builder <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/plugin" title="Plug-in (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_%28computing%29">plugins. The most important aspect of owning a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/website" title="Website" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website">website is the amount of visitors you receive. I’m referring to your website’s traffic, which can be very hard to generate in the beginning stages. It’s essential that you <a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/6-websites-to-track-a-websites-traffic/">track your website’s traffic to see where you’re at.

Awk Introduction Tutorial – 7 Awk Print Examples

2010-05-19 0 min read Bash Fedora Linux

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Awk Introduction Tutorial – 7 Awk Print Examples This is the first article on the new awk tutorial series. We’ll be posting several articles on awk in the upcoming weeks that will cover all features of awk with practical examples. In this article, let us review the fundamental awk working methodology along with 7 practical awk print examples. Note: Make sure you review our earlier […]

Lock the hardware eject button of the cdrom

2010-04-29 1 min read Fedora Learning Linux

$ eject -i 1 This command will lock the hardware eject button of your cdrom drive. Some uses are:

1: If you have a toddler and has discovered the cdrom button

2: If you are carrying a laptop in a bag or case and don’t want it to eject if the button is inadvertently pressed.

To unlock the button use:

eject -i 0

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Convert decimal numbers to binary

2010-04-21 0 min read Bash

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There is a calculator called bc that works in the command line. So if you need a quick calculator function in the command line then you could write some functions that will do the trcik for you. Here is an example: