Author Archives: Silver Moon

About Silver Moon

A Tech Enthusiast, Blogger, Linux Fan and a Software Developer. Writes about Computer hardware, Linux and Open Source software and coding in Python, Php and Javascript. He can be reached at [email protected].

Php get list of locales installed on system

By | March 26, 2012

On linux , the list of locales installed on the system can be fetched through the terminal command locale -a : $ locale -a C C.UTF-8 en_AG en_AG.utf8 en_AU.utf8 en_BW.utf8 en_CA.utf8 en_DK.utf8 en_GB.utf8 en_HK.utf8 en_IE.utf8 en_IN en_IN.utf8 en_NG en_NG.utf8 en_NZ.utf8 en_PH.utf8 en_SG.utf8 en_US.utf8 en_ZA.utf8 en_ZM en_ZM.utf8 en_ZW.utf8 es_AR.utf8 es_BO.utf8 es_CL.utf8 es_CO.utf8 es_CR.utf8 es_DO.utf8 es_EC.utf8 es_ES.utf8… Read More »

Install Quanta on Ubuntu 11.10

By | May 10, 2020

I upgraded my ubuntu few hours back from 11.04 to 11.10 ; it all went fine. After the upgrade I noticed that Quanta – my favorite php development tool had vanished. Doing few searches on google lead to the information that its now deprecated and not maintained in the repos anymore. So I got it… Read More »

Get time difference in microtime in C

By | March 9, 2012

The function gettimeofday can be used to retrieve the total number of seconds and balance microseconds elapsed since EPOCH. Structure timeval looks like this : struct timeval { time_t tv_sec; /* seconds */ suseconds_t tv_usec; /* microseconds */ }; On Linux it can be done like this : /** * Get time difference in microseconds… Read More »

Data type u_int8_t , u_int16_t , u_int32_t on windows

By | March 9, 2012

On Linux the header file sys/types.h provides the fixed sized integer data types like these : u_int8_t; u_int16_t; u_int32_t; On windows the header file stdint.h provides similar ones but with slightly different names , uint8_t etc. So if you are writing cross platform code you can get the same ones on windows as in a… Read More »

How to Get IP Whois Data in C with Sockets on Linux – Code Example

By | August 7, 2020

Theory The whois information of an ip address provides various details like its network, range, isp etc. This information is maintained by various regional registry servers. Read the wikipedia article on regional internet registries for more information. There are a total of 5 regional registries spanning various geographical regions of the world. For example if… Read More »

Compile wxwebconnect on Ubuntu 11.04 64 bit

By | February 2, 2012

wxwebconnect is a control for wxwidgets that allows to embed a gecko browser in a wxwidgets application. So lets try to install it on Ubuntu 11.04 wxWidgets can be installed from synaptic. Look for packages called libwxgtk2.8-* 1. Download wxwebconnect source from http://www.kirix.com/labs/wxwebconnect/downloads.html Extract them in home directory. Inside the webconnect directory you would see… Read More »

Winsock tutorial – Socket programming in C on windows

By | July 25, 2020

Socket programming with winsock This is a quick guide/tutorial to learning socket programming in C language on Windows. “Windows” because the code snippets shown over here will work only on Windows. The windows api to socket programming is called winsock. Sockets are the fundamental “things” behind any kind of network communications done by your computer…. Read More »

str_replace for C

By | December 22, 2011

Php has a useful function called str_replace which can search and replace a certain string in another big string. However there is no such function in C. So I wrote up one for myself. Here is the code. /* * Search and replace a string with another string , in a string * */ char… Read More »

Easy to use C/C++ IDE for Ubuntu Linux

By | October 19, 2012

Here are some IDEs that work very well on Ubuntu ( and other Linuxes ) and can be used as an alternative to the terminal gcc or g++ thing. Geany Url : http://www.geany.org/ Install with sudo apt-get install geany Open any C/C++/PHP/Html/Python/Perl file and start coding. Compile with F8 , Build with F9 and execute… Read More »

Traceroute command not working on Ubuntu

By | August 4, 2012

The traceroute utility can be installed from synaptic : $ sudo apt-get install traceroute Some Information : $ traceroute -V Modern traceroute for Linux, version 2.0.15, Oct 17 2010 Copyright (c) 2008 Dmitry Butskoy, License: GPL v2 or any later Doing some test runs $ traceroute www.google.com traceroute to www.google.com (74.125.235.20), 30 hops max, 60… Read More »