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Amazon.com starts operations in India as Junglee.com!

Amazon.com goes live today in India as Junglee.com. Offered in the beta version, it offers different catagories of products to shop online including books, mobiles, laptops, gaming consoles etc. But the main difference in the business model is that Junglee uses the service of other sellers for the process. The customers are …

What are RSS Feeds?

What are RSS Feeds? What is an RSS Reader? Have you ever felt like you should subscribe to a an interesting website so that you will not miss any posts of that website? What if there are a lot of websites or blogs of your interest and you want to …

10 Must Use Tools To Increase Blog Traffic

Listing out a few service and tools to increase traffic to your blog or website. Google Analytics – Helps to get you an idea about daily traffic. Google Webmaster Tools – Helps Webmasters to check the fundamentals, submit site-map etc. Google Adwords – Submit Ads of your website to Google …

Aakash tablets – 14 lakh booked in 14 days

Sales bookings for Aakash, world’s cheapest tablet have soared to 14 lakh units within just two weeks after it was put up for sale online for Rs 2,500 a piece.Aakash has received about 1 lakh orders a day since online launch last month. In comparison, Apple sold about 10 lakh iPads …

How to Read Run Time Variables in UNIX?

We may need to read run time variables, during the execution of a unix script. It is done with the help of read command. A few examples as below: server501:# echo “Enter Name: ” Enter Name: server501:# read name Angelina server501:# echo $name Angelina Some  other examples 1. server501:# #!/bin/sh server501:# …

YouTube’s 100 Most Viewed Videos

A list prepared by MewLists based on YouTube Charts. 1. Justin Bieber – Baby ft. Ludacris 2. Lady Gaga – Bad Romance 3. Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) (The Official 2010 FIFA… 4. Eminem – Love The Way You Lie ft. Rihanna 5. Charlie bit my finger – again …

SED Command

SED ( Stream editor) : A special editor for modifying files automatically. It has similarity with the “Find” and “Replace” command available in windows notepad/wordpad. sed command can be used to search and manipulate input text in many ways. Though mainly used for substitution, it can also do numerous other …

Classification of UNIX Commands

There are more than 200 UNIX level commands. The important ones are classified below: General Purpose Utilities passwd who whoami uname tty stty info Working With Directories mkdir rmdir ls File Handling Commands cat cp rm mv more wc cmp diff dos2unix tar gzip AND gunzip compress AND uncompress zip …

AWK Command

Awk actually stands for the names of its authors: “Aho, Weinberger, & Kernighan”. Used for pattern scanning / filtering Command syntax :   awk  <search pattern> { action } Example : Consider the file test.log with the below data server501:[DATA001] /home/oracle -> cat test.log ANJELINA IS A GOOD GIRL RAMU …

UNIX Architecture

UNIX Architecture can be best understood if we know the components in UNIX. The important components of UNIX OS can be classified as below. 1. Kernel – small program written i n C which interacts with hardware 2.Shell (Command Interpretor) – One shell is generated for each user for running commands. Bourne shell(sh) is …

Aakash Tablet – Why Should You Buy It?

The new sector of Tablet PCs has emerged, and masses are showing great enthusiasm at these new size gadgets. A range of gadgets are now available in the market ranging from iPad 2 to the  cheapest Aakash Tablets. iPad 2 without 3G costs around $499(Rs.25000) but the Aakash Tablet from …

What Are The Basic UNIX Ulilities / Commands?

pwd                                       print working directory cd                                           change directory mkdir                                    make directory rmdir                                     remove directory ls                                             list contents of directory cat                                          display contents of files cp                                           copy one file to another rm                                          remove files tput clear                           clear screen who                                       …

What is UNIX?

UNIX is the  trademarked form of Unics (Uniplexed Information and Computing System). UNIX is an important Operating System developed in 1969 by AT &T. Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson were the brains behind this OS. Though the  name UNIX is trademarked , UNIX is more like a family name now, …