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Git through SSH Tunnel as Proxy
ByEric Magit is a great tool and it is common to have a git server over SSH possibly managed by gitolite. However, there are situations that we can not directly connect to the git server but be able to SSH to another node that can connect to the git server. The git server may allow only…
Where to download an old release package of Hadoop?
ByQ AThe download page of Hadoop http://hadoop.apache.org/releases.html only contains several recent release packages. I would like to download some old release packages such as Hadoop 2.5.0 which is not available anymore on the release page. Where to download a copy of the old release? You can download the old release packages of Hadoop on the http://archive.apache.org…
How to install vbetool on CentOS 6.6?
ByEric MaI found CentOS 6.6 does not ship vbetool in its default repositories, EPEL or RPMfusion. How to install vbetool on CentOS 6.6? First, download the source package from http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/vbetool/ and unpack the package. Second, install needed packages: # yum pciutils-devel pciutils-devel-static libx86-devel During the building, it will try to find the libpci.a in a different…
Favorite Sayings by John Ousterhout – Precious Experience and Advice for Building Systems
ByEric MaJohn Ousterhout is a professor of Deparment of Computer Science from Stanford University. One recent project he is working on is the RAMCloud, a “new class of storage, based entirely in DRAM, that is 2-3 orders of magnitude faster than existing storage systems”. He posts his “Favorite Sayings” on his homepage. These sayings are precious…
How to make Alt key work in xterm?
ByEric MaAlt key seems not work in xterm. Alt is important for Emacs. How to make Alt key work in xterm? Put this in your ~/.Xresources file: XTerm*eightBitInput: false XTerm*eightBitOutput: true Remember to make it take effect after you change the ~/.Xresource without restarting the X server by xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources Read more: How to rearrange…
How to view DVI files on Linux?
ByEric MaHow to view the DVI files generated by latex on Linux? It seems evinece can not open it. After install the evince-dvi package, evince should be able to view dvi files: # yum install evince-dvi Read more: How to view .mbox files on Linux? How to view a file at a specific commit in git?…