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Catching Fire – The Survival Game

A movie review of The Hunger Games - Catching Fire

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How to install PHP in Ubuntu – Step by Step Guide

This tutorial will teach you how to install php in Ubuntu linux system. To install PHP 5 in Ubuntu - follow below steps: a) Open terminal and type below commnad: b) The installer itself would create the php configuration file i.e. php.ini in the installation directory /etc/php5 I would recommend you to install Apache2 before…

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How to configure apache for a new website and configure php in Ubuntu

This tutorial will teach you how to configure apache web server to run php scripts and create a new site in Ubuntu. This also assumes that you have already installed php and apache in Ubuntu. If you didn't then here is a step by step guide on - How to install apache in Ubuntu How…

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How to – install brackets.io in Ubuntu

In this tutorial you would learn how to install brackets.io in Ubuntu system. Brackets.io is a free open source code editor for the web development. a) First download the installer (.deb) from the brackets.io home page for Ubuntu. b) To download : Go to http://brackets.io/ and click Download Brackets (LINUX64). c) If you are using…

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Read local files and metadata using HTML5 without uploading to server

HTML5 comes with a array of features which breaks away from traditional file reading, file upload method. It provides a FileReader object which provides you lots of functions to manipulate the local files in the user system without having them uploaded to server. This provides great benefits when you need to perform file types checking, size…

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Setting Up DOSBOX in Ubuntu to run Turbo C

DOSBOX is an x86 architecture emulator which helps to run older DOS based programs in modern computers running Windows or Linux. It creates a layer where all DOS programs can run from its own installation directory by mounting a virtual drive. Installation: a) To install DOSBOX, go to Software Centre. Search for DOSBOX and click…

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DFSORT – Skip and read selective records – SKIPREC and STOPAFT

This tutorial will teach you how to read selective lines from the beginning of a Physical Sequential file using SORT. Like many features, SORT provides two control keyword - SKIPREC and STOPAFT which can be used to skip records and read selective no of lines. SKIPREC=n : How many "n" lines to be skipped from…

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DFSORT – Simple sort with multiple columns using SORT FIELDS

This tutorial will teach you the very basics of IBM's DFSORT. DFSORT's main purpose is to sort, however it does a lot more than the sort - basically SORT can do almost any types of data processings. Lets say you have a sequential dataset (PS) with below data. It has 3 fields - a) employee…

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Drawing in HTML5 using Canvas with Save as image feature

This tutorial will explain how to draw various basic shapes and texts in HTML5 Canvas element. A Canvas element provides a way to draw 2D graphics on the fly on the browser. To declare a canvas inside a HTML, use [cci_html][/cci_html] tag, you can specify the height and width of the canvas while declaring the…

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JavaScript variable initialization

Initialization is a very important task in all programming languages. Not initializing any variable with proper type is the root cause of many many IT application problems. This article is an experiment in JavaScript variables. JavaScript dynamically assigns datatypes. The type of value you assign, the variable becomes of that same type. But before you…

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Install Gnome in Ubuntu 14.04 – Flashback Metacity – Replacing Unity

For some people, Unity environment is difficult to grasp at first due to its nature. For others, Unity performance is very slow due to its shadows, animations etc. Well, if you want to replace Unity and go back to good ol' Gnome in Ubuntu 14.04 and install Gnome Flashback, then follow below steps. This will…

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Speedup your Ubuntu Installation

Are you feeling that your Linux/Ubuntu installation becoming slow day-by-day? Is your Linux/Ubuntu PC/Laptop/Netbook too slow to work? Well, like any other operating system, Ubuntu also becomes slow after a prolong use and its time to clean it up and give the installation a boost. Here are list of activities that you may want to…