Even if you are regularly using Google maps, probably few of the tips mentioned below might be new to you. 1. Set Home and Work Location Click on “My places” (located on the top left-side) and set your “Home” and “Work” address. This way, later when you are getting a direction from your home or [...]
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Question: I typically use wget to download files. On some systems, wget is not installed and only curl is available. Can you explain me with a simple example on how I can download a remote file using curl? Are there any difference between curl and wget? Answer: On a high-level, both wget and curl are [...]
If you are using Oracle database, at some point you might have to deal with uploading data to the tables from a text file. This article provides 10 practical examples on how to upload data from a flat file to Oracle tables. Input data file for SQL*Loader This is the input text file that contains [...]
This article explains fundamentals of datastore management in VMWare ESXi server. In this example, let us assume that we have a server that has 6 slots for hard disks. We’ve filled all the 6 slots with hard disks. We are also using the hardware raid. So, we have created three RAID-1 logical groups out of [...]
We are starting a new series on CouchDB. This the first article in the CouchDB series. CouchDB is an Apache project. Just like the name suggest it is a database. CouchDB is a NoSQL database. NoSQL databases doesn’t have any schema, tables, etc, that you’ll typically see in a traditional databases like Oracle or MySQL. [...]
TGS is 4 years old now. TGS is growing strong every year only because of your tremendous love and support. I sincerely thank you from my heart for being part of TGS. Leave a comment with your birthday wishes to TGS. Linux and Open source is an ocean. There are so many things to learn [...]
Question: How do I enable EPEL repository on CentOS so that I can install additional packages directly using yum command? Answer: EPEL stands for Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux. EPEL is maintained as part of the Fedora project that maintains several packages that are not part of the standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux (or CentOS). [...]
These are the classic books on UNIX and C programming written few decades ago, but still the best books in its category. C Programming Language (2nd Edition), by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie – Dennis M. Ritchie is the father of C programming who passed away recently. This is hands-down the best book [...]