perl is faster than bash in some cases.

2011-01-11 3 min read bash Fedora Linux perl
Some days back, I had to generate some data to be uploaded to a database. As usual I assumed that bash should be faster and hence wrote the script to create the files in bash. But I found that even after 5 hours I was only 10% done with the data generation. Now that would mean that it would take around 50 hours to complete the data generation. Something did not look correct to me and I asked one of my colleague. Continue reading

http://dmartin.org/content/things-i-can-do-linux-i-cant-do-windows

2010-06-09 9 min read Linux
<a href="http://dmartin.org/content/things-i-can-do-linux-i-cant-do-windows" target="_blank">Here&#8217;s a nice article on Windows vs Linux. I have been reading on these for quite some time now, but this one really sums it up all very well. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Since I often hear from friends and people on the Internet about things they can&#8217;t do in Linux that they could on Windows, I thought I&#8217;d write up a list of things I can do in Linux that I can&#8217;t do in Windows. Continue reading

Contd:: Evaluation of Distro\’s

2010-05-17 4 min read Linux
<a href="www.foresightlinux.org/" target="_blank">Foresight Foresight is a desktop operating system featuring an intuitive user interface and a showcase of the latest desktop software, giving users convenient and enjoyable access to their music, photos, videos, documents, and Internet resources. <a href="http://amit-agarwal.co.in/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/1.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-270" title="Foresight" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/1-300x225.jpg" alt="Foresight" width="300" height="225" /> I liked their logo. Quite simple and intutive. <a href="http://amit-agarwal.co.in/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/2.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-271" title="Foresight Foreground" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/2-300x225.jpg" alt="Foresight Foreground" width="300" height="225" /> Logo goes quite well with the Foreground image. Continue reading