One Year {Blog} Anniversary

I cannot believe it is {already} one year, ever since I started posting some content in my web log. In the last 12 months, there were around 90 posts on various operating system, C/C++ compiler features. Since I have to work with Solaris, and Sun Studio C/C++ compilers in my day-to-day life, most of the technical content is restricted to Solaris operating system, and Sun Studio compilers. Here's a consolidated list of various posts:

HOW TOs

Solaris

1. Fixing sound card woes
   
2. Solaris 10: USB Digital Camera HOWTO
   
3. Mounting a CD-ROM manually
   
4. Hijacking a function call (interposing)
   
5. Installing apps/packages with pkg-get
   
6. Recovering from a Runtime Linker Failure I | II | III
   
7. An Odyssey to Solaris 11 on Solaris Express 17
   
8. Writing a Signal Handler
   
9. lofiadm - Mounting an ISO image on Solaris file system
   
10. Getting rid of [English/European] bar underneath every window
    
11. Setting up a DHCP client
    
12. Resetting Forgotten Root Password
    
13. Build a Shared Library
    
14. Building ICU 2.2 & Xerces 2.1 on Solaris 10 x86
    
15. Building MPlayer
    
16. Splitting and Merging Files

Linux

1. Installing Sun Java Desktop System 2.0
   
2. Find the amount of free & used memory
   
3. Installing Dynamic Fonts
   
4. Installing Source RPM (SRPM)
   
5. Recovering from Frozen XWindows
   
6. JDS Linux & Sony DSC-V1/W1 Digital Camera

About

Solaris

1. MPSS: More performance with Large Pages (Solaris 9 and higher)
   
2. malloc vs mtmalloc
   
3. Solaris Virtual Memory System
   
4. File permissions
   
5. UNIX terminology
   
6. Year 2038 rollover problem
   
7. Know the process resource limits
   
8. CPU hog with connections in CLOSE_WAIT
   
9. 32-bits , fopen() and max number of open files
   
10. Running Enterprise applications on Solaris 10
    
11. Binary Compatibility
    
12. Undocumented Thread Environment Variables
    
13. Linker: -B {static | dynamic}
    
14. Initialization & Termination routines in a dynamic object
    
15. Printing Stack Trace with printstack()
    
16. OpenSolaris: Open for download
    
17. Some useful commands
    
18. Some tips

Sun Studio C/C++

1. Linker Scoping default scope | default scope contd. | symbolic scope | symbolic scope contd. | hidden scope | adv/disadv of global scope | Benefits of Linker Scoping
   • Consolidated content is available as an article: Reducing symbol scope with Sun Studio C/C++
2. Profile Feedback Optimization (PFO or FBO) I | II
   
3. Investigating memory leaks with Collector/Analyzer
   
4. global const variables, symbol collisions & symbolic scoping
   
5. Behavior of Sun C++ Compiler While Compiling Templates
   
6. Annotated listing (compiler commentary) with er_src
   
7. Support for UTF-16 String Literals
   
8. Sun Studio 9: RR or GA?
   
9. Position Independent Code (PIC)
   
10. Inlining routines
    
11. #pragma pack
    
12. cscope - an interactive program examiner

C/C++/Java

1. Life Cycle of a C/C++ program
   
2. C/C++/Java: ++ unary operator
   
3. struct vs union
   
4. Functions with variable numbers of arguments
   
5. Virtual functions
   
6. C/C++ & Object Oriented Jargon
   
7. C++ name mangling
   
8. External Linkage
   • Also available as an article: Mixed Programming & External Linkage
9. 2s complement
   
10. Conditional compilation and #if 0
    
11. Assertions

Miscellaneous

1. Oracle Server architecture
   
2. Sun achieves winning Siebel benchmark
   
3. Activating Comcast High Speed Internet Account
   
4. Csh: Arguments too long error
   
5. MPlayer: Extracting Audio from a DVD

Music

1. Favorite Music
   • English I | II | III | IV
     
   • Telugu

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