The popular Xbox game Bastion has been ported to Google Chrome using the new Native Client technology. (Credit: Supergiant Games) MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–Google’s new technology to secure the Web and make browsers significantly more powerful got its first public demo tonight at the company’s headquarters south of San Francisco after three years under wraps. Calling [...]

If your site is slow, people will leave. Hopefully, you already know that. What you may not know is that Google also uses site speed as a ranking factor. Bottom line- the faster you can make your site, the better. Here are 10 tips to speed up your site. Optimize Your Images. Use this software [...]

If you are a developer, you will re-use code provided by others. Usually /lib, /lib64, /usr/local/lib, and other directories stores various shared libraries. You can write your own program using these shared libraries. As a sys admin you need to manage and install these shared libraries. Use the following commands for shared libraries management, security, [...]

Recently I had to modify a library to use dynamic linking in order to cut down on its size. Originally a 8MB file, I was looking at reducing the size to 1.3MB. Pretty great right? So why not dynamically link every time? Well, there are certain times when static linking, though it increases the size [...]