I changed my Tata Indicom Broadband plan to 1 Mbps Unlimited starting from this month. My experiences in brief...

Have you tried Master-Master replication (bi-directional slave-master replication) for MySQL? I am finding myself in a position where I need to have this replication to support the load on my blogs and sites.

I extensively use awk (along with cut and grep) for data processing of log files or for any text processing needs. AWK is an excellent text processing tool / filter and report generator. Why is AWK so important? It is an excellent filter and report writer. Many UNIX utilities generates rows and columns of information. AWK is an excellent tool for processing these rows and columns, and is easier to use AWK than most conventional programming languages. It can be considered to be a pseudo-C interpretor, as it understands the same arithmatic operators as C. AWK also has string manipulation functions, so it can search for particular strings and modify the output. AWK also has associative arrays, which are incredible useful, and is a feature most computing languages lack. Associative arrays can make a complex problem a trivial exercise.

Cartoon Network is a sick little puppy which forces really poor serials like Pokemon (someone dubbed it as Poke-shit) on its ever dwindling number of hapless viewers. I dare Cartoon Network to show me one, just one, non-brain-dead viewer (obviously excluding Cartoon Network execs) who enjoys Pokemon.

In Linux, unlike Windows, multiple users can simultaneously connect to the same machine and get a full GUI using windows managers like VNC. However when one of the account has Firefox opened, others are prevented from bringing up firefox which can be very much irritating. The solution is to bring up firefox with the following command: firefox -profile-manager -no-remote