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Simple 2009 DC Crime Data Analysis

2010-08-242010-08-24T22:41:49ZY-m-d">August 24, 20102010-08-24T22:41:49ZF j, Y

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Ubuntu 10.04 – Move Minimize, Maximize, Close Menu Buttons To The Right

2010-03-272010-03-27T19:21:05ZY-m-d">March 27, 20102010-03-27T19:21:05ZF j, Y

After adding the new themes from Ubuntu 10.04 into my Ubuntu 9.10 installation my top menus shifted to the left side. I prefer that they be on the right side. This is how to do it. Press Alt-F2 type in “gconf-editor” click run navigate to apps>metacity>general change button_layout to “:minimize,maximize,close” (without the quotes) Before After

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Hadoop & NoSQL Jobs on The Rise

2010-02-272010-02-28T01:01:50ZY-m-d">February 27, 20102010-02-28T01:01:50ZF j, Y

Percentage of Hadoop Jobs Percentage of Growth for Hadoop Jobs Percentage of Growth for NoSQL Jobs

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The Matrix Is Blue

2010-01-202010-01-21T02:07:39ZY-m-d">January 20, 20102010-01-21T02:07:39ZF j, Y

I got tired of looking at the matrix screensaver, it’s always green. I felt like changing the color, but there is no option provided to change the color in the preferences. I downloaded the code and made a simple one character change to make the screensaver blue. The following is what I did cd ~/projects [...]

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Visualization Of My Delicious Bookmarks

2009-11-052009-11-05T05:07:55ZY-m-d">November 5, 20092009-11-05T05:07:55ZF j, Y

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How to stop your laptop from giving that high pitch squealing noise

2009-02-062009-02-06T07:51:36ZY-m-d">February 6, 20092009-02-06T07:51:36ZF j, Y

Does your laptop squeal? Is it a nasty high pitch noise that occurs when you are running on battery power. The solution: Download Rightmark CPU Clock Utility: http://cpu.rightmark.org/ Install it Go to the advanced CPU settings and click on the Chipset Button Uncheck Enable popdown and popup Apply to save Be done with it.

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Mount FTP Or SFTP As A Drive In Windows

2008-06-292008-06-29T09:36:01ZY-m-d">June 29, 20082008-06-29T09:36:01ZF j, Y

Problem I want to mount my folders from my webhost over sftp (ssh) on my Windows machine for free. Something like sshfs for Windows. Discussion Currently there is no single application that will let me mount an SFTP connection as a drive. There are however applications such as NetDrive, FTPDrive, etc which will let me [...]

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Bypass Rapidshare’s Cats

2008-06-282008-06-28T05:59:53ZY-m-d">June 28, 20082008-06-28T05:59:53ZF j, Y

Are you getting frustrated with rapidshare’s captcha. Give CryptLoad a try: http://cryptload.info/ Need installing instructions (really simple): http://cryptload.info/wiki_en/wiki/Main_Page Also get the Rapidshare Happy Hour Checker: http://rapidshare.com/files/112883634/RSHappyHourChecker.zip Please comment on your experiences.

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IBM ThinkPad T43 Hissing Noise In Linux

2008-06-262008-06-27T01:56:54ZY-m-d">June 26, 20082008-06-27T01:56:54ZF j, Y

I have an old T43 laptop by IBM. Recently I put Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) on it and started getting a hissing noise when running on battery power. I found 2 possible solutions: add the following to /etc/modprobe.d/options options processor max_cstate=2 get the linux-server kernel sudo apt-get install linux-server I didn’t get a chance to try [...]

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PostgreSQL – Dump and Restore

2008-06-232008-06-23T20:24:18ZY-m-d">June 23, 20082008-06-23T20:24:18ZF j, Y

To dump data from a postgreSQL database you can use the pg_dump command as follows pg_dump database > file.sql   To restore that data you can execute the following command psql -d database -f file.sql -U db_username

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