How to remove .svn directories under hlfs dir recursively as follows. weiwei@weiwei-HP-Compaq-dx6128-MT-PX478AV:~/workshop1/hlfs > find ./ -name “.svn” ./test/build/.svn ./test/.svn ./output/conf/.svn ./output/lib32/.svn ./patches/.svn ./src/include/.svn ./src/include/api/.svn ./src/snapshot/.svn ./src/snapshot/unittest/build/.svn ./src/snapshot/unittest/.svn ./src/utils/.svn ./src/clean/Mapreducer/build/.svn ./src/clean/Mapreducer/.svn ./src/clean/.svn ./src/clean/unittest/.svn ./src/icache/.svn ./src/icache/unittest/.svn ./src/backend/.svn ./src/storage/.svn ./src/cache/.svn ./src/cache/unittest/.svn ./src/clone/.svn ./src/tools/.svn ./src/tools/unittest/.svn ./src/logger/.svn weiwei@weiwei-HP-Compaq-dx6128-MT-PX478AV:~/workshop1/hlfs > find ./ -name “.svn” | xargs rm -rf
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How to get logs of a specific time range on Linux?
Posted onThe logs I am processing is Hadoop log (log4j). It is in format like: 2014-09-20 21:55:11,855 INFO org.apache.hadoop.nfs.nfs3.IdUserGroup: Updated user map size: 36 2014-09-20 21:55:11,863 INFO org.apache.hadoop.nfs.nfs3.IdUserGroup: Updated group map size: 55 2014-09-20 22:10:11,907 INFO org.apache.hadoop.nfs.nfs3.IdUserGroup: Update cache now 2014-09-20 22:10:11,907 INFO org.apache.hadoop.nfs.nfs3.IdUserGroup: Not doing static UID/GID mapping because ‘/etc/nfs.map’ does not exist. Now, I
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Finding All Available Versions of a Package in Ubuntu
Posted onHow to find all available versions of a package in Ubuntu? To list available versions of a package: apt-cache showpkg <package-name> For example, to check all versions of thunderbird: $ sudo apt-cache showpkg thunderbird Package: thunderbird Versions: 1:31.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty-updates_main_binary-amd64_Packages) (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty-security_main_binary-amd64_Packages) Description Language: File: /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty_main_binary-amd64_Packages MD5: 68ed1001b79d708ad48956a0c129114d Description Language: en File: /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty_main_i18n_Translation-en MD5: 68ed1001b79d708ad48956a0c129114d 1:31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 (/var/lib/dpkg/status)
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How to install Adobe Reader on Linux Mint 17?
Posted onHow to install Adobe Reader on Linux Mint 17? First, add Canonical PPA repository sudo add-apt-repository “deb http://archive.canonical.com/ precise partner” Then, update apt cache and install Adobe Reader sudo aptitude update sudo aptitude install acroread You can select “Yes” to set Adobe Reader as the default PDF viewer or “No” to not set it. E.Z.M.,
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How to find whether a package is installed on Linux Mint?
Posted onHow to find whether a package is installed on Linux Mint? For example, I would like to check whether ghostscript is installed. Using dpkg: dpkg -l List all available packages (installed and not installed): apt-cache pkgnames
How to flush a cached redirect by Chrome?
Posted onChrome caches redirects. How to flush a cached redirect by Chrome? Clearing the cache/cookies for the specific domain (sorry, it is the domain level in this solution) as in https://www.systutorials.com/qa/453/how-to-remove-cookies-for-a-certain-site-in-chrome will also flush the redirect caches for this domain.
How to find which files are opened by a Linux program?
Posted onHow to find which files are opened by a Linux program? For example, when I run cat ~/.bashrc, how to find out which files are opened by cat? You can achieve this by using strace if the program “open” files using system calls. For example, I run as this: strace -o /tmp/st cat ./.bashrc grep
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How to force Chrome on iPhone refresh pages and invalidate the caches
Posted onI find Chrome on my iPhone caches pages/css/js files. That makes browsing faster. However, under some situation, I’d like to force it refresh the pages/css/js and give me the latest one. How to force Chrome on iPhone refresh pages and invalidate the caches? The only method as far as I can find is to clear
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Cache at Facebook
Posted onAbout caching system at Facebook. According to: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/monitoring-cache-with-claspin/10151076705703920 Facebook has two major cache systems: Memcache, which is a simple lookaside cache with most of its smarts in the client, and TAO, a caching graph database that does its own queries to MySQL. The NSDI’13 paper introduces more about Memcache: https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi13/scaling-memcache-facebook The USENIX ATC’13 paper introduces
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WordPress: How to use Markdown for writing posts
Posted onI like the Markdown editor whick is widely used (e.g. This site) and very convenient to use. How to add a Markdown editor for WordPress? I tried some plugins and find they have their strengthens and disadvantages. Here are my requirements: Compatible with my existing posts. They should still display well. I can accept minimum
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Synchronizing home directories
Posted onAny good tools to synchronize home directories on Linux boxes? Many have several PC/laptops and consequently many home directories. There is home directory synchronizing problem. unison is a good tool to do this: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/releases/stable/unison-manual.html#rshmeth http://www.watzmann.net/blog/2009/02/my-homedirs-in-unison.html http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/index.shtml#File%20Synchronization Useful script: $ unison -batch -ui text ./ /mnt/homebak/zma/ In text user interface, synchronizing two directories in batch mode
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Where Does Evolution Save Its Data and Configuration Files on Linux?
Posted onEvolution is a great personal information management tool that provides Email, address book and calendar tools. Evolution provides many enterprise friendly feature such as native support to Microsoft Exchange connectivity for Emails, address books and calendars. Evolution uses various ways including plain files and dconf configuration systems. This post will give an introduction to the
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Hadoop Installation Tutorial (Hadoop 2.x)
Posted onHadoop 2 or YARN is the new version of Hadoop. It adds the yarn resource manager in addition to the HDFS and MapReduce components. Hadoop MapReduce is a programming model and software framework for writing applications, which is an open-source variant of MapReduce designed and implemented by Google initially for processing and generating large data
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Improving Fedora Font Rendering with Open Software and Fonts Only
Posted onIt is continuously discussed that some Fedora users do not like the font rendering in Fedora Linux and there are solutions to improve the font rendering with potentially non-free or non-licensed software/fonts. However, with only the open source fonts and software and little tricks, the font rendering on Fedora can be quite good. In this
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Accelerating WordPress with WP Super Cache, Opcache and Autoptimize
Posted onWordPress can be very fast after some effort on performance optimization with the help from its plenty of plugins. Possible ways include using cache to cut down the number of database queries, improves HTML/JavaScript/CSS code, and optimizing PHP’s performance with opcode cache. In this post, we introduce how to speed up WordPress with OPcache, page
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Unified Linux Login and Home Using OpenLDAP and NFS
Posted onIn this post, how to unified Linux login and home directory using OpenLDAP and NFS/automount will be introduced. 0. System environment This solution is tested on Fedora 12 systems and CentOS 5. LDAP and NFS server: IP: 10.0.0.2 OS: Fedora 12 x86_64 ldap base dn: “dc=lgcpu1″ Clients: IP: 10.0.0.1/24 OS: Fedora 12 x86_64 1. LDAP
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Software Engineering Advice from Building Large-Scale Distributed Systems by Jeff Dean
Posted onSoftware Engineering Advice from Building Large-Scale Distributed Systems by Jeff Dean. You can download the slides from Software Engineering Advice from Building Large-Scale Distributed Systems by Jeff Dean. These slides contain the “Numbers everyone should know” which everyone working on systems should be familiar with. Numbers Everyone Should Know L1 cache reference 0.5 ns Branch
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How To Set Mobile Skin for MediaWiki
Posted onMore and more users are browsing the Internet using a mobile device. It is preferred to provide good experience for these users. One method to service a mobile version of the page to a user with a mobile device. This tutorial introduces how to add mobile skin support for MediaWiki. Skin for mobile devices I
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A Free Personal WordPress Blog Solution
Posted onIf you want to have a wordpress blog for FREE co.cc + x10hosting is the best choice. I will introduce both in this post. I will briefly introduce how to set up a wordpress blog like my blog. The overall that I paid for this blog is only $0.89. I can say that it is
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How to Flush Linux File System Caches
Posted onWe may drop the file system caches on Linux to free up memory for applications. Kernels 2.6.16 and newer provide a mechanism via the /proc/ to make the kernel drop the page cache and/or inode and dentry caches on command. We can use this mechanism to free up the memory. However, this is a non-destructive
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