Jul 24

[Ubuntu] Nice Amarok-like music Player

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I’ve used Amarok for a long time. Unfortunately, interface of Amarok 2 has  been remarkably changed.  I like “old” Amarok’s interface so I’ve found Exaile – Amarok like music player for Gnome written in Python. Read More

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Apr 18

[Linux] How to execute SQL query on Firefox history

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1. If you don’t know anything about SQLite, please read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQLite

2. Install sqlitebrowser:

sudo apt-get install sqlitebrowser

3. Run sqlitebrowser
4. Open file:
/home/your username/.mozilla/firefox/your profile/places.sqlite
It’s a SQLite database where firefox stores information about history.
5. Execute following command:

SELECT url FROM moz_places WHERE url LIKE "%wojtekrj.net%"

6. You should have list of all vistied by you pages from my blog.

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Apr 18

[Linux] How to check if program has memory leaks

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You can check your program using command:

valgrind your_program

Example of usage:
We have following C++ program (tst.cpp):

int main() {
	int * tab = new int[1000000];
	return 0;
}

Obviously it generates memory leak. We compile it to tst file and execute:

valgrind tst

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