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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
mkdir xscreensaver
cd xscreensaver
sudo [...]

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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 mount an FTP [...]

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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 the first option as I [...]

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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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Sony VGN-SZ780 Laptop Review

2008-06-222008-06-22T12:48:22ZY-m-d">June 22, 20082008-06-22T12:48:22ZF j, Y

Recently I purchased a Sony VGN-SZ780 Laptop, as I haven’t had a working computer for close to a year now. Previously I managed to get by using my roomate’s laptop and the desktop at my research lab. My roommate had a sony SZ330 I believe with Windows XP (32-bit), it worked quite nicely once I [...]

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Disable Full Row Select In Windows Vista

2008-05-292008-05-29T22:59:16ZY-m-d">May 29, 20082008-05-29T22:59:16ZF j, Y

Vista, is just so unreliable. Until I can put Ubuntu or XP back on my laptop, I can atleast make Vista work a little better for me. First thing to go is the full row select in folders. I only want to select a file if I click on it in the name column, not [...]

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