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This tutorial will guide you on how to install JDK (Java Development Kit) on Linux. Since I use Centos 5.4 x86_64 in everyday life, this guide is showing you how to install JDK in Centos 5.4 64bit. It must work in any other Linux distro.
If you install a Linux OS, the creators usually already included a JVM to the system to run some programs that need Java. Mostly they included OpenJDK for the JVM. continue reading…

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Bing, the Microsoft’s search engine to fight with Google, was bringing twitter search to you since October 21, 2009 to provide real-time search Twitter status update. It’s still in beta version.
To try out Bing’s beta version of Twitter search you have to go to Bing.com/twitter. At the top of the page is a tag cloud with the top keywords on Twitter, and below that are sample tweets from those hot topics as well as links to see further results. continue reading…

The conventional way for a mail client program to send e-mail is using TCP port 25, which is also the port used by mail servers to talk to each other. But port 25 is now widely abused by malware to spread worms and spam. As a result, many ISPs are restricting its use. continue reading…

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What is Google Wave? Below is the detail descriptions taken from Wikipedia.

Google Wave is a self-described “personal communication and collaboration tool” announced by Google at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009.[1][2] It is a web-based servicecomputing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mailinstant messagingwikis, and social networking.[3] It has a strong collaborative and real-time[4] focus supported by extensions that can provide, for example,spelling/grammar checking, automated translation among 40 languages,[2] and numerous other extensions.[4] Initially released only to developers, a “preview release” of Google Wave was extended to 100,000 users in September 2009, each allowed to invite twenty to thirty additional users. On the 29th of November 2009, Google accepted most requests submitted soon after the extended release of the technical preview in September 2009; these users have around 25 invitations to give. continue reading…

If you want to play musics (MP3 files) in UNIX/Linux platform, you can choose to use XMMS, Songbird, Amarok ,Rhythmbox and others. Since I use Gnome window manager on my Centos 5.4, I use Rhythmbox to play MP3 music files. However when I first run the Rhythmbox program, I got error messages telling me that ‘The Gstreamer plugins to decode MP3 files cound not be found”, so I need to install the plugins.
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(Blog.Zdnet.Com)

Mozilla believes that its new Firefox Mobile browser could wean developers away from developing for platform-specific app stores and onto developing cross-platform apps powered by JavaScript and HTML.

Mozilla is starting to take mobile seriously. It is set to release the first version of Firefox Mobile (codenamed Fennec) on Nokia’s N900 handset shortly, with versions for Windows Mobile and Android due to hit handsets next year. continue reading…

(Taken from Blog.Zdnet.Com)

Google is reportedly in talks to buy Yelp for $500 million. Sure, buyouts are a fine exit strategy for startups, but does Google (insert any other Web giant here too) have to buy everything that someday could be a threat?

TechCrunch first reported the Google-Yelp talks and the New York Times is confirming them. continue reading…

You have Fedora 12 installed on your laptop/PC and wanna use Huawei E220 USB Modem to access internet? On the previous posts, I had created tutorials of installing Huawei E220 on Slackware 12.2 and Centos 5.4. They should be in the related posts list of this tutorial.
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I followed the tutorial written by James F. Koopmann located at http://www.jameskoopmann.com/docs/Install_Oracle11gCentOS5.htm. It is basically the best oracle installation tutorial I found on the internet.
The tutorial just install the software only. For the database creation, we can install later using Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA). continue reading…

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Sometime you want to backup a table and all its contents in MySQL Database and then you might want to restore or copy the table to different MySQL database.
To do this you need to dump the table first and then restore to the target database. continue reading…

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