Hi I am running a huge task [automated translation scripted with perl + database etc.] to run for about 2 weeks non-stop. While thinking how to speed it up I saw that the translator outputs everything (all translated sentences, all info on the way) to STDOUT all the time. This makes it work visibly slower when I get the output on the co...
I have written some GTK programs using the gtkD bindings for the D programming language that are otherwise console apps, but are capable of displaying plots on the screen and saving them to a file. I'd like to run these on a machine that I only have console-based SSH access to, which means that the plots wouldn't be displayed on the scr...
Recently I've heard a bit about the implementation (or rather, use of) /dev/null in Mongrel2, as well as other projects. However, I've never seen it explained what this actually means. What does this mean, and why is it good for scalability (as I've seen it be claimed)? ...