Category: Software and Programming

Unix Programming Frequently Asked Questions 1.7: How do I get my program to act like a daemon?

Watch carefully – you fork twice, after propitiating the appropriate dieties/system calls… (via Sam Ruby).

A list of PHP + Apache bundled Installation kits.

Office 2000 Save My Settings Wizard – can it smother Clippie in the crib, please?

Raymond Chen‘s blog has lots of fascinating anecdotes about the Windows GUI – where did the “Start” button come from? Is that thingie really called the “System Tray”? Why is there an internal function in one of the DLLs called “bunny”? Chen explains the origins of these (and other) Windows 95 peculiarities.