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Monthly Archives: March 2004

March Tool of the Month is up

17-Mar-04

This month I wrote about ApacheTop and iftop, two really cool proggys that let you see what’s going on with Apache and your network interfaces, respectively.

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Good news, bad news

15-Mar-04

Bought the Belkin Nostromo n52 Speedpad the other day. It’s a device for gamers, primarily. Connects via USB and it comes with software to customize the keys and buttons to make it easier to play various games.
I had assumed, since it came with special software to customize the device, that its keys had “special” [...]

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Keyboard as mouse

15-Mar-04

Interesting little tidbit: You can use the keypad on your keyboard as a mouse-substitute on Linux by hitting Ctrl+Shift+NumLock. Then movement corresponds with the position of the keys: 1 moves the cursor down and left, 2 moves the cursor down, 3 moves the cursor down and to the right, etc. The 5 key equals a [...]

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UnixReview.com: ccache

14-Mar-04

February’s “Open Road” column has been up for a while, this one’s on using ccache. Nice schtuff for anyone who spends a lot of time re-compiling and testing C/C++ apps.

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