http://sharingisjoy.com I learned something new today Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:11:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After several experiences in missing to read important stuff written in small fonts, I thought to write a little about the experiences. This might help some. Example 1: If you go to several super foods, health foods website, they say "as seen on CBS, Oprah" etc. I went on to reading what ... http://sharingisjoy.com/general-tips/2009/01/30/are-you-reading-the-small-fonts/ After my experiments with flat files and php for Pritlog, when I came to find out that Sqlite would be much more performance effective compared to flat files, I am starting to think if I should move to Sqlite for Pritlog. As an initial test, I tried using a table with ... http://sharingisjoy.com/computers/2009/01/30/considering-sqlite-for-pritlog/ After releasing the beta version of Pritlog 0.412, I started doing performance tests on Pritlog using varying number of posts. When I reached over 500 posts, I started noticing performance issues and slow response times. Crossing 1000, it almost was not responding. This is when I started searching for a better ... http://sharingisjoy.com/computers/2009/01/30/flat-file-databases-in-php/ My wife and I - love the taste of grilled food. As we dont have that kind of backyard space for a real grill, we tried to grill using the oven, but this never tasted that good. Once my friend suggested George foreman's grill. I have never heard that name before. ... http://sharingisjoy.com/recipes/2009/01/30/george-foremans-grill/ I wanted to write about my recent experiences with this highly dangerous company. I don't think they can operate with such fraud intentions within the US. But they still are. I need some tips on how to report such companies. Here are the events that happened: July 8: A marketing person from ... http://sharingisjoy.com/general-tips/2008/08/30/mpingi-a-fraud-voip-company-beware/ htaccess files are optional configuration files used in Apache web servers that can be used to control the directories they are placed in and also the sub directories. If your host allows .htaccess files, you may want to read the below articles and use the powerful techniques explained. http://perishablepress.com/press/2006/01/10/stupid-htaccess-tricks/ http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/apache-htaccess.html Try searching for .htaccess ... http://sharingisjoy.com/computers/2008/08/30/htaccess-tricks/ Some tips from the below link to read your apache log files using the simple grep command. http://immike.net/blog/2007/07/12/grepping-your-web-logs/ Here are some quotes from the article: Here’s what a line from an Apache log file looks like: 71.206.3.109 - - [12/Jul/2007:09:16:31 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 33545 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; ... http://sharingisjoy.com/computers/2008/08/30/read-apache-logs-using-grep/ I read this interesting and very simple tip on how to convert your linux bash prompt to look like a dos prompt. Here is the link to the original article. http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2008/07/18/make-your-bash-prompt-look-like-dos-prompt/ Quote from the article: Add this line to your .bashrc: PS1=’C:${PWD////}>’ This basically changes the format of your prompt, to look like a dos ... http://sharingisjoy.com/computers/2008/08/30/bash-prompt-like-dos-prompt/ I came across this good article recently. Please consider reading the whole article at the below link: http://thinksimplenow.com/clarity/find-clarity-in-one-day I am not a believer on meditation. That would be the only point I would not accept from the article. The author begins the article this way: Do you ever get so busy with the details ... http://sharingisjoy.com/general-tips/2008/08/30/think-simple/ I have tried atleast 40-45 distributions and wanted to write atleast 1 line about the below ones. The list is sorted based on the popularity as mentioned on http://distrowatch.com at the time of writing. Ubuntu: Very stable and the most popular version. But since it is purely open source, the codecs ... http://sharingisjoy.com/computers/2008/08/30/linuxbsd-versions-i-have-tried/