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Force a shell script to fflush

I was wondering if it was possible to tell bash that all calls to echo or printf should be followed up by a subsequent call to fflush() on stdout/stderr respectively? A quick and dirty solution would be to write my own printf implementation that did this and use it in lieu of either built in, but it occurred …

How can I uninstall or upgrade my old node.js version?

some time ago I have installed node.js on my Ubuntu system. with the following steps (dump of my history): My Version is v0.3.2-pre. Please, is there a clean way to get a new version by uninstall/install or upgrade? I have not much experience with make or git. Thanks Answer Do the exact same thing again. The …

How to load balance a php application?

I am looking for guides, advice, or samples of how to load balance a php application. My setup is Ubuntu 10.04 and PHP 5.3. I have never load balanced servers before and I am looking for any help that is offered. Update: It’s a web application that is expected to have a few hundred users using it at the…

Format of /dev/input/event*

What is the “format” of the character devices located in /dev/input/event*? In other words, how can I decode the character stream? A Python example would be greatly appreciated. Answer Right here in the Input.py module. You’ll also need the event.py module.

Memcached not showing up in phpinfo()

I’ve installed libmemcached and memcached pecl extension for php and for some reason it’s not installing correctly? i’ve got memcached.so in /usr/lib64/php/ with the right permissions and libmemcache.so in /usr/local/lib/ Everything seemed to build correctly without error, and I restarted ap…

Paint Pixels to Screen via Linux FrameBuffer

I was recently struck by a curious idea to take input from /dev/urandom, convert relevant characters to random integers, and use those integers as the rgb/x-y values for pixels to paint onto the screen. I’ve done some research (here on StackOverflow and elsewhere) and many suggest that you can simply wr…