What about the master branch for local git configuration in a git repository to make it track remote master branch?
You may append these lines to .git/config in your cloned repository directory:
[branch "master"]
remote = origin
merge = refs/heads/master
Which simple and basic image editors are good on Linux like the paint program on Windows? GIMP is great but too high weighted for normal usage like resizing, cropping, image annotation with text. Pinta is a free and open source drawing/editing program that is easy to edit images. It is available on many Linux distros….
Alt 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…
Readers may ask “there are lots Q&A sites. Why do you set up ask.fclose.com?”. There are mainly two reasons: I have some tips to share which are short and fit into the Q&A model very well. These tips sometimes do not fit into a relative long blog post. Hence, I post them as Q&As. Some…
Facebook uses lots MySQL databases. Any information about how Facebook scales MySQL? Some information on the Web: MySQL at Facebook’s page https://www.facebook.com/MySQLatFacebook?filter=1 A post by Ryan Thiessen, Database Operations at Facebook on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Facebook-Engineering/How-does-Facebook-structure-MySQL-so-that-it-is-robust-and-scalable And more: http://mashable.com/2011/12/15/facebook-timeline-mysql/ http://gigaom.com/2011/12/06/facebook-shares-some-secrets-on-making-mysql-scale/ http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/12/facebook-timeline-anatomy “A lot of people are surprised that for this shiny new thing for Facebook, we’re using…
Which ones are recommended introductions to Hadoop 2.0 (YARN)? Pointers to webpages are good. Those are good ones that I find: The SoCC13 paper “Apache Hadoop YARN: Yet Another Resource Negotiator” by Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli et al.: http://www.socc2013.org/home/program/a5-vavilapalli.pdf The introduction from Hortonworks by Arun Murthy:http://hortonworks.com/blog/apache-hadoop-yarn-concepts-and-applications/ The “Official” one from Apache Hadoop website (very brief):https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.2.0/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/YARN.html Read…
In C, how to print a string as a line to STDOUT? That is, the string and the newline character, nicely? And similarly, how to print the line to STDERR? In C, to print to STDOUT, you may do this: printf(“%sn”, your_str); For example, $ cat t.c #include <stdio.h> void main() { printf(“%sn”, “hello world!”);…