Solaris killing process in bulk

                Some times I am forced to kill a process due to various reasons. Most of the times, it won’t be a single process, it will be a group of process with the same name. Say like you want to kill all the java process running on your system. [...]

All my gadgets are outdated :(

I was shocked on reading http://thefutureofthings.com/news/5739/25gb-in-70-seconds-with-usb-3-0.html.  Hope your gadgets too will be outdated soon

Command to remove ^M characters

 
                This blog entry is for those who are frustrated by removing ^M (Control M) characters. Usually ^M character will appear in the end of each ASCII file that is transferred from DOS to *NIX based system. Have a look at http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~craig/utility/flip/ to know the reason for the same.

Generics against intuitions

Hope all of you would know the Generics in java 5. If so, can you try to locate the error in the below program, that leads to the follwing compilation error

- The method testMethod(List<Map<String,String>>) in the type OverloadingTest is not applicable for the arguments  (ArrayList<HashMap<String,String>>)