HOW TO : Configure Jboss for writing web access logs
One of the capabilities of Jboss is that it can serve HTTP traffic. By default Jboss does not log any of the HTTP traffic in it’s...
Technology
HOW TO : Check the number of threads spawned (opened) by a process
If you ever wanted to check how many threads a particular process spawned off in Linux, you can use Find the PID of the process by...
HOW TO : Clear unused swap memory in Linux
Inspired by a G+ post by Thomas Weeks . swap memory is something used by the OS to essentially swap data to and forth if the...
HOW TO : Clear screen based on OS in python scripts
I like shiny new toys :). Even though perl is pretty powerful and more than enough for the simple tasks I get to automate from time...
Project : Uptime
The uptime of this blog has been really bad recently. I switched to hosting it on a Rackspace virtual server last year and went with the...
HOW TO : Search and Replace text in a file with Perl
There are tons of sites (and tons of different ways to do this) about this information.. But wanted to note this down for my personal records....