Most of solutions are JavaScript- and AJAX-based, however we’ve also managed to find some lightweight CSS-based solutions. To install and use the script, it’s often enough to include the JavaScript library in the source code and provide the hint as plain text within the “title”-attribute. Sometimes you can also insert URLs, images, tables…
Monthly Archives: June 2007
Why my code is running slow on MAC 10.4
Posted on June 11, 2007
I had a complaint that performance of the program was degraded after machine was upgraded to 10.4.
After investigation it is appear that system call ‘getcwd‘ become very expensive call where internally it is iterates through the each parent directory and collect information to construct the path rather then remember the program’s current folder.
Since this system call was use to save the name of a working directory to return to it later, the solution was to replace it with system calls open+fchdir that will actually do the same work. This was recommended in man pages for getcwd (MAC):
These routines have traditionally been used by programs to save the name
of a working directory for the purpose of returning to it. A much faster
and less error-prone method of accomplishing this is to open the current
directory (‘.’) and use the fchdir(2) function to return.
Featured Firefox Extension: Turn on a Safari-style address bar with FissionLifehacker
Posted on June 11, 2007
All platforms with Firefox: The Fission extension displays the progress bar as a solid color in the Firefox location bar, like Safari.
Fission lets you use either an image or a solid color to display the progress. Fission also lets you choose the location — either the whole progress bar or to the right. Check out some more ways to consolidate Firefox’s chrome. Fission is a free download and works anywhere Firefox does.
Fission [Mozilla Add-ons]
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FireFox: how to paste multi-line into a single line input field?
Posted on June 8, 2007
It is simple as open a browser window with about.config in address bar, search or filer ‘singleline‘, and set value to 2.
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Cool & neat stuff
Posted on June 7, 2007
Today I try-out a new Google’s Reader, a monitoring solution to aggregate different feeds. It is cool.
Below are links that I found useful. I am planning to post similar links in the feature.
Family essential information – I have to do this yesterday 
Cool enhancement for your stairs – - I will make this this weekend (if will have time).
How to start Ruth IRA – This could be handy.
Optimizing Linux System PerformanceLinux DevCenter
Posted on June 7, 2007
Wringing the value out of every processor cycle on your machine required a variety of approaches. Sure, your code has to be efficient, but you also have to have your disks configured correctly, and a multitude of other things. Swayam Prakash provides a guide to some of the lower hanging fruit you can pick.
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Firefox: Unresponsive Script Warning
Posted on June 6, 2007
Lately I’ve getting annoying messages about “Unresponsive Script” since I upgrade to FireFox 2.0. Especially when Yahoo web-email is opened in one of the window/tab.
At some point I run out of patience and dig the net to put a stop on it. I found few places where people getting the same issue (Lifehacker and itchyhands).
The short story is simple! Open browser window/tab with the address bar populated with about:config. Locate preference dom.max_script_run_time and change the value to higher number then you have (my value was 10). To narrow down the search, use a filter bar.
Informix BAR_RETRY
Posted on June 1, 2007
Onbar process will retry BAR_RETRY times each dbspace in case of failure during Informix’s Database restore.
The restore will fail immediately once a single dbspace failed to be restored in BAR_RETRY attempts.