Tsuna's blog

So for some reason one of my servers had 12G of memory allocated to the dentry_cache that wasn't being reclaimed. Probably a bug in th...

Oh boy, the JDK was really poorly """designed""". Today's fail is: java.lang.AssertionError: cache contro...

Have you ever wondered why, often , small open-source projects led by a handful of bearded hackers become more successful than large, entrep...

If like me, you're puzzled because the semiverbatim environment isn't respecting your spaces and newlines like verbatim does, make...

Bonjour is Apple's zeroconf protocol and iTunes (among others) uses it to broadcast the existence of its shared library, which I find a...

I recently needed to keep track of the number of pipes opened by a server and I was using lsof -nw | fgrep FIFO but this was rather slow. H...

If you enter your PIN wrong 3 times, your G1 becomes "PUK locked" and supposedly you have to call the customer service to get this...

MacPort 1.7.1 breaks itself when trying to upgrade from gettext 0.17_3 to 0.17_4 when coreutils are installed with +with_default_names , her...

For some reason, Ryanair's site screws up every once in a while when booking a flight and it will only show you a page saying "Your...

Here's a more complete review of Android/G1 vs. the iPhone (after just 4 days using it). The packaging is a bit cumbersome , and you hav...