... If you are programming, you should use curl. It has a nice api and is available for most languages. Shelling out to the os to run wget is a kludge and shouldn't be done if you have an API interface! share ...

...ioned in discussions of application development. It seems both widespread and important, but I've yet to come across even a poor explanation of what bootstrapping actually is; rather, it seems as though everyone is just supposed to know what it means. I don't, though. Near as I can figure, it has...

... You need to use the m flag: multiline; treat beginning and end characters (^ and $) as working over multiple lines (i.e., match the beginning or end of each line (delimited by \n or \r), not only the very beginning or end of the whole input string) Also put the * in the r...

...rk request, displaying extended request details, including support for SSL and various request/reponse format, like JSON, etc... You can also configure it to sniff only requests to specific servers, not the whole traffic. It's commercial software, but there is a trial, and IMHO it's definitively a...

I'm learning glsl shading and I've come across different file formats. I've seen people giving their vertex and fragment shaders .vert and .frag extensions. But I've also seen .vsh and .fsh extensions, and even both shaders together in a single .glsl file. So I'm wondering if there is a st...

...e pattern is a '|', the kernel will treat the rest of the pattern as a command to run. The core dump will be written to the standard input of that program instead of to a file. Instead of writing the core dump to disk, your system is configured to send it to the abrt program instead. Automated B...

...ding-safe. If an exception happens in write(), close will never be called, and the file won't be closed. PrintWriter also uses the default system encoding, which is very bad for portability. And finally, this approach generates a separate class specifically for this line (however, given that Scala a...

I am a system administrator and I have been asked to run a linux script to clean the system. 4 Answers ...

...rk in C is Check; a list of unit testing frameworks in C can be found here and is reproduced below. Depending on how many standard library functions your runtime has, you may or not be able to use one of those. AceUnit AceUnit (Advanced C and Embedded Unit) bills itself as a comfortable C code uni...

... When an instance of java.util.Random is constructed with a specific seed parameter (in this case -229985452 or -147909649), it follows the random number generation algorithm beginning with that seed value. Every Random constructed with the same seed will ...