I got a new job, again Today I signed a contract with a company named Fabrix.TV. Fabrix is developing a new generation of video content delivery platform.
I am joining as a chief video content consumer senior software engineer.

You probably noticed that I didn’t write anything new for awhile. Well, I was looking for a new job and didn’t have much time to write. Luckily, this is over. I am now a senior software engineer at Exanet LTD.
Exanet is developing storage solutions for large organisations. ExaStore, main product of the company, is a [...]

This is a first out of several articles describing Bazaar, the distributed version control system. This series is intended for Subversion users, who may decide that they need a little more from their version control system.
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This article explains how to implement performance critical reference counting in C/C++ program, using atomic variables and gcc. Enjoy it.
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In this article I cover in depth Python’s optparse module. It presents most useful recipes and is a good handbook when parsing command line options in a Python program.
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This article introduces signals in Linux to the reader. It explains the nature of signals, how to use them and gives few small use examples.
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This article explains how to backup and restore your Linux installation. One thing special about method described in this article, is that it allows you to preserve disk space – you compress and decompress the data on the fly, so you need much less disk space to create the backup and store it.
To the article.

I planned this as a short post, but it ended up quiet long so I post it as I do with the rest of big articles.
This article explains and demonstrates how to create a new application that communicates over SSH. To the article.

Did I mention that I have new email address? It is alex@alexonlinux.com . Nice one isn’t it?

At last it is here. This is a huge article on SSH, with lots of examples, very convenient index and table of contents. The article presents the most useful out of SSH on Linux and gives a brief explanation of how things work under the hood. Read it here.