I must have seen this video a trillion times by now. It entertains me on so many levels, that I think it’s absolutely genius. There is a lot of English swearing, so if you are easily offended, you’d better skip this one. Not Safe For Work (NSFW), unless you work in some cool technology company.
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Anyone who has been running a blog even for a couple of years, knows how annoying archives can get. Each year brings twelve monthly archives, and the more years you work, the more archives you have. And they just keep multiplying until there is no easy way to use them any more. For anyone who is suffering from this problem while using WordPress platform, I recommend a solution – Compact Archives plugin. If you are not on WordPress, chances are there is a similar plugin for your content management system, but even if there is none, creating one shouldn’t be a huge problem. See how it beautiful it is – in action on my newly re-created Archives page, or on the screenshot below.
Simple, intuitive, and scalable – just the way it should be.
Once in a while there is a need to see the tree of processes on a Linux system. When such a need arises, I usually run “ps auxw –forest“, which results in something like this (partial output, top only):
Today, via this blog post, I’ve learned that there is another way – “pstree“. This command accepts a number of parameters, but in its simplest form, results in something like this (partial output, top only):
On my Fedora box, /usr/bin/pstree is a part of the psmisc RPM, which is the one that brings /usr/bin/killall to the system.
I came across an interesting tool – Which loads faster?, which allows you to load two web sites side-by-side and measure which one of those loads faster. If you reload the sites several times, you’ll also get the average statistics across all runs.
