Conky : Smooth transparent cool widget on Linux

Ever felt bored of the bare Linux desktop? Installing more and more "gadgets" on your desktop and have trouble arranging them? Then realizing the CPU utilization by these gadgets going high and scrapping them. Well the answers to your trouble is Conky. Conky is a very light weight widget that fits on a Linux desktop and increases the fun of staring at your desktop.

Plot graphs fast on Matplotlib

Less than a year ago, being a python novice it was hard to look over utilities like excel and more recently gnuplot to plot graphs from stats obtained in files. Both have their pros and cons. But once the python knot got untied it is harder to look over the ease it provides for anything and everything. One such module is matplotlib.

Linked list representation using dot language

As directed by the first post on Dot language, it can used in several other applications for representing diagrams with minimal effort(unlike paint or sophisticated draw tools). One of such applications I came across last week was to represent a linked list. A linked list can be viewed as a rank sorted graph on the horizontal than the vertical(the graph earlier described in the first post). The only major part where this system fails is when you need to specify some handles on the nodes, then they may not be exactly on the vertical as desired. I am working on this and if I get a solution will post it for the benefit of many in search of this answer.

Random ip ping test

A simple bash script for pinging random ips in the institute for simple networking first session.

Cache Configuration for Multicore Multithread system in Multi2Sim

Multi2Sim is a simulation framework for superscalar, multithreaded, and multicore processors. It is an application-only tool, which allows one or more applications to be run on top of it without booting an operating system first. This little tip is not about multi2sim and its functionalities which can be found at http://www.multi2sim.org/wiki/index.php5/Main_Page . This post talks about writing cache configuration files for multicore multithreaded benchmarks that are to be simulated.