In a former article we saw something about Inotify. inotify is a Linux kernel subsystem that acts to extend filesystems to notice changes to the filesystem, and report those changes to applications. It replaces an earlier facility, dnotify, which had similar goals. Last time I focused on the functionality of inotifywait command which can be […]
I bought a new monitor at home and added a second monitor in the office, so I had a lot to do with the graphics of my Linux setup. What do you use in these cases? My preferred tool for all these operations is certainly xrandr . In particular I’m used to use it from […]
Sometimes I like to look at what offers the open source world on the games side, today I want to introduce three little-known games that run on our beloved penguin. For this article I have selected five games that I had never heard of, but from the first glance i’ve took to them they seem very promising; and I apologies with the developer of them, some are probably already well known and widespread […]
Among the commands available from the linux terminal there’s also cut, very useful for processing strings and characters in general. The cut command is one of the oldest Unix command. That means that it is more then 40 years old. And it shows. It is important to understand that this is a Unix command and […]
Today I present you this excellent and comprehensive article on an open source search engine: Nutch, you can find the original article with the code examples here After reading this article readers should be somewhat familiar with the basic crawling concepts and core MapReduce jobs in Nutch. What is a web crawler? A Web Crawler […]