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Python: why it is always a good idea to use ‘with’ key when dealing with file objects
In Python, you can read from and write to files without import any modules. Python has built-in function…
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Support Net Neutrality
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Shell script: US federal holidays
This script is written based on the list of U.S. federal holidays I found in Wikipedia - Wikipedia…
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Linux : Why isn’t Linux updating file access time (atime)
One of the things which confuses many Linux users is why the access time attribute of a file…
Posted inHow tos Linux Miscellaneous
strace – tracing syscall by example
The strace command allows us to trace the system calls made by a program. In this blog, I…
The Zen of Python
In [1]: import this The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters
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Yahoo Mail fail
After not being able to access your yahoo email account for 3 days, and losing 2 weeks worth…
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Linux security tip of the day
Users accounts usually get created and removed on most Development or Production servers. It is not uncommon to…
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Could not chdir to home directory: Permission denied
Problem: every time a user logs in, they get "Could not chdir to home directory....Permission denied" error, although…
How do you compare two folders and copy the difference to a third folder?
This is my first attempt in response to a question posed in one of StackExchange sites for Unix/Linux…