Java is the most regularly used programming language for the creation of web applications. This high-level programming language develops by the Sun Micro-system. This language was designed for use in the world of internet and known for fastest, secure, and most reliable language of the computing platform. One interesting fact is that Java programmers are
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Do big data stream processing in the stream way
Posted onReading: Years in Big Data. Months with Apache Flink. 5 Early Observations With Stream Processing: https://data-artisans.com/blog/early-observations-apache-flink. The article suggest adopting the right solution, Flink, for big data processing. Flink is interesting and built for stream processing. The broader view and take away may be to solve problems using the right solution. We saw many painful
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How to synchronize Google Drive and Google Docs files in Ubuntu/Debian/Mint Linux using Insync
Posted onGoogle Drive is a nice cloud storage service. It provides a suite of nice online document spreadsheet and slide editors Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Slides. The collaborative editing and full history tracking features of Google Docs are excellent. Google Drive gives 16GB free storage which is pretty much larger compared to other free
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How to get date and time from another timezone in Python?
Posted onHow to get the date and time from another timezone in Python? You may use the pytz library. Example usage as follows. $ python3 Python 3.8.2 (default, Jul 16 2020, 14:00:26) >>> from datetime import datetime >>> import pytz >>> >>> print(datetime.now(pytz.timezone(‘Europe/Amsterdam’)).strftime(‘%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z%z’)) 2020-08-09 15:50:00 CEST+0200 >>>
How to get date and time using date command from another timezone in Linux?
Posted ondate command on Linux gets the date and time in the system timezone. But how to get date and time using date command from another timezone in Linux? You can make date print the time of another timezone by setting the TZ environment variable. For example, export TZ=Hongkong; date Sat Dec 1 09:39:13 HKT 2018
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How to change the logo shown during booting in Ubuntu?
Posted onHow to change the logo shown during booting in Ubuntu? I originally installed Ubuntu MATE 18.04. But I am using GNOME 3 now by replacing the DE. But the log shown during booting is still Ubuntu MATE’s. How to change it to another one? It is plymouth the application that manages the “splash” screen during
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How to call a function by its name as a string in PHP?
Posted onIn PHP, how to call a function by its name as a string? The name strings may be known only at run time. If the string containing the function name is $func, you may call the function like $func() or call_user_func($func) using call_user_func(). The call_user_func() function supports more usage patterns, like call_user_func( array($obj,$func), $params )
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How to configure /dev/shm size of Linux?
Posted on/dev/shm is a nice in memory disk on Linux. The default size seems half of the physical memory’s size. How to configure shm size of Linux? And what’s the consequence? To change the configuration for /dev/shm, add one line to /etc/fstab as follows. tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults,size=8g 0 0 Here, the /dev/shm size is configured
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How to get a path’s mtime in C++ on Linux?
Posted onHow to get a path’s mtime in C++ on Linux? The path can be a file or a dir. You may call the standard library function lstat() for the file or dir under the path. int lstat(const char *pathname, struct stat *statbuf); From the returned stat struct, there is a field st_mtim which is the
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how to set linux date and time in commands
Posted onhow to set linux date and time in commands For example, to change date to 14 Nov 2017 11:57:00, the command would be, $ sudo date –set “14 Nov 2017 11:57:00” Tue Nov 14 11:57:00 HKT 2017
What is the difference between work conserving I/O scheduler and non-work conserving I/O scheduler?
Posted onWhat is the difference between work conserving I/O scheduler and non-work conserving I/O scheduler? In a work-conserving mode, the scheduler must choose one of the pending requests, if any, to dispatch, even if the pending requests are far away from the current disk head position. The rationale for non-work-conserving schedulers, such as the anticipatory scheduler
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How to force a fsck during next rebooting of Linux?
Posted onHow to force a fsck of a file system, say the root, during the next rebooting of Linux? 2 possible ways: /forcefsck way for / # touch /forcefsck and reboot. Next time the / will be fsck’ed . systemd way Add these 2 kernel boot parameters: fsck.mode=force fsck.repair=yes What these 2 kernel parameters do: KERNEL
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How to tune systems to achieve high performance in virtualization circumstances?
Posted onMost time, we need to tune system parameters to achieve better performance but what the general parameters to be tuned in Linux systems. I think you may want to add following parameters to Kernel boot (/etc/default/grub) parameters intel_idle.max_cstate=0 processor.max_cstate=0 idle=poll intel_pstate=disable At the same time, you may also want to shutdown/open Pause Loop Exiting (PLE).
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How to make iptables/ip6tables configurations permanent across reboot on CentOS 7 Linux?
Posted onHow to make iptables/ip6tables configurations permanent across reboot on CentOS 7 Linux? CentOS 7 uses FirewallD by default. If you would like to manage iptables/ip6tables rules directly without using FirewallD, you may use the old good iptables-services service which will load the iptables/ip6tables rules saved in /etc/sysconfig/iptables and /etc/sysconfig/ip6tables when it is started during boot
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How to detect whether a file is being written by any other process in Linux?
Posted onHow to detect whether a file is being written by any other process in Linux? Before a program open a file to processes it, it wants to ensure no other processes are writing to it. Here, we are sure after the files are written and closed, they will not be written any more. Hence, one-time
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How to make CentOS Linux to load a module automatically at boot time?
Posted onHow to make CentOS Linux to load a module, say ixgbe, automatically at boot time? I am using CentOS 7. You can create a text file <some name>.conf in the /etc/modules-load.d/ and list the modules to be loaded there, one per line. The systemd-modules-load.service daemon will read these files and load the modules. Check more
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How to get the mtime of a file on Linux?
Posted onHow to get the mtime of a file on Linux from the file’s path? You can use stat to get the file status including the mtime: %y time of last modification, human-readable %Y time of last modification, seconds since Epoch As an example, $ stat -c %y ./file 2017-06-26 13:33:06.764042064 +0800 $ stat -c %Y
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How to compare date in SQL?
Posted onHow to compare date in SQL? For example, the ‘users’ table has a column ‘loggin’ which is the date and time. How to find out the ‘users’ whose ‘loggin’ date is later than Jan 10, 2017? In SQL, dates can be compared using ‘’, ‘=‘. For the example described, the SQL statement could be: SELECT
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What’s the standard or common data structure for a list of objects in C++?
Posted onIn C++, what’s the standard or common data structure for a list of objects? In C++, the common data structure for a sequence (“list”) of objects may be std::vector. A vector is a dynamically resizable array. It is “The most extensively used container in the C++ Standard Library …, offering a combination of dynamic memory
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What’s the standard or common data structure for a list of objects in C?
Posted onIn C, what’s the standard or common data structure for a list of objects? In C, one common way to store a list/collection of objects of the same type is to use one-dimensional arrays. In C, an array is a collection of data objects of the same type. An array is in a contiguous memory
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