The Meditative Coder

I wanted a script that would invoke a process, passing in a port number from a circular pool of ports.  When the process exits and restarts,...

Old habits die hard. In their 1978 book " The C Programming Language ", Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie described a version o...

We've all done it: parsed command-line parameters and converting numeric strings to integers using " atoi() ".  And (hopefully...

I disagree with a lot of "password strength" measures.  Most measures want you to include upper and lower case, digits, special ch...

I never remember the environment variables that are set for "cron" jobs?  So I created a cron job on each of our platforms with th...

Everybody knows that " strncpy() " is the "safe" version of " strcpy() ", right?  No chance of going past the ...

I have some periodic cron jobs that need extra configuration.  For example, one of them generates a report on bug statistics on a code branc...

No, syncookies don't have anything to do with dieting.  But they did come up as I learned that the TCP listen backlog is more complicat...

If you are receiving UDP datagrams (multicast or unicast, no difference), how much socket buffer does a datagram consume?  I.e. how many da...

Huh. I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that humans have an amazing ability to adapt and change, and to be completely ignorant of tho...

As a hiring manager looking for good software engineers, this article rings so true... http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJ...

Mnemonic phone numbers.  You know what I'm talking about: a computer store which lists its phone number as "Run-Fast".  Altern...

Some time ago, I transferred my geeky-boy.com domain from an old hosting service to GoDaddy.  At that time, I set the NS servers to my (then...

There have been quite a few times that I have wished for a quick and easy way to make random selections.  I mean in everyday situations, lik...

I think you have to be of a certain age to really appreciate MAD Magazine.  When I was a kid, it was one of the *FEW* outlets of satire, sar...