The Halting Problem For Linear Machines

A small idea before the fireworks show Thoralf Skolem was a mathematician who worked in mathematical logic, set theory, and number the...

HOW TO CONVERT STRINGS INTO A URL FRIENDLY FORMAT USING PHP OR JAVASCRIPT

This function converts strings into a format that can be used in URLs. For example, the string "Mike’s Karate School" would be ret...

Simple BASH-based Queue System

I'm rather new to the entire Linux shell scripting world. After a brief look into BASH (Bourne-Again Shell), the default shell used in ...

parallelism or multiple threads in BASH

I was working on a Nagios check the other day, which was looping over a number of items and assessing their status. I found that the check ...

Linux create a select menu in a shell script

#!/bin/sh show_menu(){ NORMAL=`echo "\033[m"` MENU=`echo "\033[36m"` #Blue NUMBER=`echo "\033[33m"...