I spend quite an awfully long time coding using Eclipse PDT and hate staring at the white IDE screen.
It hurts my eyes to keep looking at the white screen and thus my journey started to find a suitable dark theme.
Having not been able to find one that didn’t crash my Eclipse set-up, I went ahead and created my own dark theme.
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I do most of my development work using XAMPP. So I always have a MySQL server up and running.
Recently there was a requirement to develop a Windows Desktop Application in C# with the backend as MySQL. I was developing this on a networked Windows machine and had configured the connection string accordingly.
When i first ran the application BAM!!! i got this error
A little investigation and the solution is what i found below.
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While working with one of my clients, there was a requirement to generate PDF dynamically.
Since the project was done in PHP, I had to naturally look for something that worked well with PHP.
A little search and I came up with the following options :
But some of the hurdles were:
After having shifted to Ubuntu from Windows for quite a long time, I was looking for a no nonsense Bandwidth Monitor. It was during this time that I came across vnStat.
vnStat in the makers word :
vnStat is a network traffic monitor for Linux that keeps a log of daily network traffic for the selected interface(s). vnStat isn’t a packet sniffer. The traffic information is analyzed from the /proc filesystem. That way vnStat can be used even without root permissions. However, at least a 2.2 series kernel is required.
This program is open source/GPL’ed and can be installed either as root or as a single user. Better instructions are included in the README.
So I installed vnStat using
:~$sudo apt-get install vnstat
The first step in using vnStat is to initialize it and configure it to read your Internet bandwidth usage.
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