Copying gigabytes of disk can get the system sluggish. On Linux, the solution is so simple. If process 18898 happens to take control of your disk, just go:
ionice -c 3 -p 18898
And you have your computer back. “-c 3″ means class 3, which is idle class. In other words, take the disk when nobody else [...]
The whole story began when I decided to be kind enough to tell the Xilinx tools (ISE 9.2 in my case) that the Virtex-4 I’m targeting is a grown-up. Stepping 2, to be precise. I added
CONFIG STEPPING = “2″;
to the UCF file. It must have been one of those moments where I believed that the [...]
I got it when I was 13. Yes, some of us play with strange toys. I had a lot of fun moments with it, but the truth is that even if it worked, it’s not much of use, now that I’ve betrayed it with a young and colorful one.
Mechanically, this old scope is in good [...]
Introduction
An Israeli website, “Kama Kesef” (כמה כסף in Hebrew, meaning “how much money”) is a neat web calculator telling how much to give as a money present in weddings and other events. When I realized that I’m far from being the only one using it to decide what sum to write down on the cheque, [...]
