Mobikwik.com - A nice site to recharge your mobile

www.mobikwik.com helps us avoid the hassle of visiting a shop and waiting in a queue to get our mobile recharged. Merely with a few button clicks, we are able to topup our mobile balance with zero effort. Whats more, the site keeps giving PROMO CODES or DISCOUNT COUPONS which helps us get free talk time. I have had a pleasant experience using the site and strongly recommend you to recharge at www.mobikwik.com

Finally, success on Hadoop

After days of fighting with the system (due to lack of even basic Linux knowledge), I finally managed to configure Hadoop on a single node and ran the Word Count example which ships along with the software itself. It felt good to see a working example. The results were good.
I hope that this acts as a stepping stone for my further work on hadoop and in my overall research attempt. Must thank Michael Noll for his tutorial at http://www.michael-noll.com/tutorials/running-hadoop-on-ubuntu-linux-single-node-cluster/ for the help.
My next step is going to be setting up a multi-node cluster.

A wonderful tutorial on Hadoop installation for single node

Michael Noll has written an amazing tutorial on installing Hadoop on a single node. The tutorial is titled "Running Hadoop On Ubuntu Linux (Single-Node Cluster)".
It covers every aspect in pretty much detail.

The only point not covered and where I got stuck is when ssh would not start off. Finally, I discovered that there was no SSH server installed. This command

sudo aptitude install openssh-server

got the SSH server installed and lo, everything went on well then.

Access the tutorial at http://www.michael-noll.com/tutorials/running-hadoop-on-ubuntu-linux-single-node-cluster/

No more Sun Java on Ubuntu 10.04

Sun Java packages have been dropped from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS from the Multiverse section of Ubuntu archive. Ubuntu team is encouraging users to use OpenJDK instead of Sun JDK/JRE but still if you want to install Sun JDK on your Ubuntu then here is the solution for the same.

perform the following four steps to install the package.
1. Add the Canonical Partner Repository to your apt repositories:

$ sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner"

2. Update the source list

$ sudo apt-get update

3. Install sun-java6-jdk

$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

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Installing Ubuntu on Windows is So easy

For those of you who want to take that step from the world of windows to Linux, here is panacea at last. Ubuntu 10.x is here.
The best part is, if you have a machine with windows, its a very easy task to install Ubuntu.
Visit http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/windows-installer for the Windows Installer of Ubuntu. Install this and lo and behold, once your machine restarts, you already have dual booting enabled and you can just click ahead to access your linux installation.

Great social initiatives-Indian courier service hires only deaf workers

India has one of the largest deaf populations in the world, but social stigmas have eliminated many job opportunities for the roughly 6 percent of the population that is affected. Aiming to empower this isolated group economically, Mirakle Couriers is a service provider that hires only deaf workers.

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Tution Free Education - University of the People

In a new inititative, University of the People (UoPeople) is offering tuition free education as an online university dedicated to the global advancement and democratization of higher education.
This tuition free university embraces the worldwide presence of the Internet and dropping technology costs to bring tuition free and university-level studies within reach to millions of people across the world.

Its really amazing and wonderful, especially considering the rising costs of education world-wide. I wish all success to this wonderful endeavor.

PHP: a Beginner's Guide

Vikram Vaswani, "PHP: a Beginner's Guide" 
2008 | ISBN-10: 0071549013 | 478 Pages | PDF | 5 MB

Learn how to build dynamic, data-driven Web applications using PHP. Covering the latest release of this cross-platform, open-source scripting language, PHP: A Beginner's Guide teaches you how to write basic PHP programs and enhance them with more advanced features such as MySQL and SQLite database integration, XML input, and third-party extensions. This fast-paced tutorial provides one-stop coverage of software installation, language syntax and data structures, flow control routines, built-in functions, and best practices.

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Data Warehousing: Architecture and Implementation

Data Warehousing: Architecture and Implementation 
Prentice Hall PTR | January 9, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0130809020 | 360 pages | PDF | 2.7 mb

This book is intended for Information Technology (IT) professionals who have been hearing about or have been tasked to evaluate, learn or implement data warehousing technologies. Far from being just a passing fad, data warehousing technology has grown much in scale and reputation in the past few years, as evidenced by the increasing number of products, vendors, organizations, and yes, even books, devoted to the subject. Enterprises that have successfully implemented data warehouses find it strategic and often wonder how they ever managed to survive without it in the past. As early as 1995, a Gartner Group survey of Fortune 500 IT managers found that 90 percent of all organizations had planned to implement data warehouses by 1998. Virtually all Top-100 US banks will actively use a data warehouse-based profitability application by 1998. Nearly 30 percent of companies that actively pursue this technology have created a permanent or semipermanent unit to plan, create, maintain, promote, and support the data warehouse. If you are an IT professional who has been tasked with planning, managing, designing, implementing, supporting, or maintaining your organization's data warehouse, then this book is intended for you. The first section introduces the Enterprise Architecture and Data Warehouse concepts, the basis of the reasons for writing this book. The second section of this book focuses on three of the key People in any data warehousing initiative: the Project Sponsor, the CIO, and the Project Manager. This section is devoted to addressing the primary concerns of these individuals.

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Data Warehousing OLAP and Data Mining

S. Nagabhushana "Data Warehousing OLAP and Data Mining"
New Age International | English | | ISBN: N/A; EAN: 9788122417647 | 350 pages | PDF | 1,7 MB

This book is mainly intended for IT students and professionals to learn or implement data warehousing technologies. It experiences the real-time environment and promotes planning, managing, designing, implementing, supporting, maintaining and analyzing data warehouse in organizations and it also provides various mining techniques as well as issues in practical use of Data Mining Tools.

The book is designed for the target audience such as specialists, trainers and IT users. It does not assume any special knowledge as background. Understanding of computer use, databases and statistics will be helpful.
About the Author(s):
Nagabushna Sujihal was born at Bellary in the year 1982 and completed his primary education at National School, Bangalore. He had his Engineering graduation in Electronic and Communication Engineering from Bellary Engineering College, affiliated to Visveswaraih Technological University, Belgaum, Karnataka in the year 2003. Soon after his degree in Engineering, he joined teaching profession at Intell Engineering College, Anantpur, Andhra Pradesh. At present, he is perceiving his post-graduation at Sathayabhama Deemed University, Chennai in Computer Science Engineering.

Contents:
VOLUME I: DATA WAREHOUSING IMPLEMENTATION AND OLAP

PART I: INTRODUCTION The Enterprise IT Architecture
Data Warehouse Concepts
PART II: PEOPLE The Project Sponsor
The CIO
The Project Manager
PART III: PROCESS Warehousing Strategy
Warehouse Management and Support Processes
Data Warehouse Planning
Data Warehouse Implementation
PART IV: TECHNOLOGY Hardware and Operating Systems
Warehousing Software
Warehouse Schema Design
Warehouse Metadata
Warehousing Applications
PART V: MAINTENANCE, EVOLUTION AND TRENDS Warehouse Maintenance and Evolution
Warehousing Trends
PART VI: ON-LINE ANALYTICAL PROCESSING Introduction
OLAP Application
VOLUME II: DATA MINING Introduction
Data Mining with Decision Trees
Data Mining with Association Rules
Automatic Clustering Detection
Data Mining with Neural Network

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