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AOL has now officially announced that they will end the development and support of all Netscape browsers.
After February 1st 2008, there will be no more development, support, or security patches for Navigator 9, or any previous Netscape Navigator browsers.
Users are advised to stop using the browser.
After 10 years of support, on [...]

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Shutdown Day

Shutdown Day is a Global Internet Experiment whose purpose is to get people to think about how their lives have changed with the increasing use of the home computer, and whether or not any good things are being lost because of this.
The idea of Shutdown Day project is simple - just shutdown your computer for [...]

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Almost all modern shell allows you to search command history if enabled by user. Use history command to display the history list with line numbers. Lines listed with with a * have been modified by user.
Shell history search command
Type history at a shell prompt:
$ history
Output:
Sample output:
6 du -c
7 du -ch
8 ls [01-15]*-2008
9 [...]

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There are total 4 steps involved for hard disk upgrade and installation procedure:

Step #1 : Partition the new disk using fdisk command
Following command will list all detected hard disks:
# fdisk -l | grep ‘^Disk’
Output:
Disk /dev/sda: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes
Disk /dev/sdb: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes
A device name refers to the entire hard disk.
To partition the disk [...]

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Recover MySql password

You can recover MySQL database server password with following five easy steps.
Step # 1: Stop the MySQL server process.
Step # 2: Start the MySQL (mysqld) server/daemon process with the –skip-grant-tables option so that it will not prompt for password.
Step # 3: Connect to mysql server as the root user.
Step # 4: Setup new root password.
Step [...]

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Come February 28th and the saga continues..
The stage is set for the mega event of the year starting on the 28th February,2008. Its the 4th edition of Pragyan, the International Techno-Management Festival of NIT Trichy.
With around INR 5 million at stake, its going to be a gold rush this time for sure with participants from [...]

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This is what we call external javascript too..
Anyway save your .js file as .php. For example, your js file will be named as file.php
The syntax to referencing a PHP file using external JavaScript is almost same as what we normally do for JS files:
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”file.php”></script>
where “file.php” is either an absolute or relative path to [...]

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copying rows in mysql

hmmm.. dint get much info about copying a row in mysql, so thought will put the code here.. its useful sometime..
the code is
INSERT INTO destinationTable (column_list) (SELECT column_list FROM sourceTable WHERE condition=check)
replace the condition with your condition.
To copy within the same table, the destination and the source table will be the same. And if you [...]

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Hard disk-based computer storage drives have been around for 50 years now and few desktop or laptop PCs can do without them. Now an upstart technology has appeared — SSDs or solid state drives based on Flash memory, the stuff that goes into those handy thumb drives that plug into the Universal Serial Bus socket.Flash [...]

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