Month: November 2010

Perl

11
Tue

Flush perl‚ Äôs print buffer – $|=1

Flush perl‚Äôs print buffer – $|=1 If you put a print statement inside of a loop that runs really really quickly, you won‚Äôt see the output of your print statement until the program terminates. The solution to this problem is to ‚Äúflush‚Äù the output buffer after each print statement. Where $| is non zero, it […]

Mac OSX

11
Mon

Mac Book Pro – Sleeping Issues

Mac Book Pro – Sleeping Issues OS X supports five different sleep modes: 0 – Old style sleep mode, with RAM powered on while sleeping, safe sleep disabled, and super-fast wake. 1 – Hibernation mode, with RAM contents written to disk, system totally shut down while ‚Äúsleeping,‚Äù and slower wake up, due to reading the […]

Perl, PHP

11
Mon

GET or POST – Secure

GET or POST – Secure GET is NOT Secure GET is not a secure method of sending data. Don’t use it for forms that send password info, credit card data or other sensitive information. Since the data is passed through as part of the URL, it’ll show up in the web server’s logfile (complete with […]