Installing Ubuntu on pre-installed Windows 8 (UEFI supported)

You may refer following link for making dual boot Ubuntu with pre-installed Windows 8

Installing Ubuntu on pre-installed Windows 8

Create RAMDisk on Linux platform

Problem statement: 

Write a program in C++ to create a RAMDRIVE and associate an a cyclic directory structure to it. Use this RAMDRIVE to store input, out files to run a calculator program.

Solution:

   A.    Basics of RAMDisk

As name suggest, RAMDisk is basically hard disk portion which is used / treated as RAM portion. It means, from actual RAM, we utilize few size to be used as RAMDisk. For e.g out of 2GB RAM size, you may allocate 512 MB size to newly created portion. Ramdisk or ramdrive is part of system memory that applications/user can use just like normal disk space — e.g. to create folders and files in it and manipulate them with dramatically better performance rather if they were stored on the hard drive. This is because Ram memory is much faster than other forms of storage.

By default Ubuntu has ramdisk mounted into /dev/shm/ directory so you can just copy/move files into that dir and be sure they’ll be stored in RAM memory. That could be useful for, say, video conversion when both input and output files are stored in ramdisk — resulting performance will be better as read and write speeds are higher for ram than for hdd or any other storage. This is due to the fact CPU cannot access to HDD directly while it can do it with RAM. There are two types of RAMDisk: 1. ramfs (not much used now a days) and 2. tmpfs (mostly used).

Head First Servlet & JSP

This is really a good book to gain important knowledge and hands on Servlet & JSP in short period of time. You may download it from below link:
http://it-ebooks.info/book/375/

JavaScript online tutorial for beginner

Below links will be useful to start with writing JavaScript.

Link 1:
http://www.webteacher.com/javascript/index.html

Link 2:
http://www.tizag.com/javascriptT/index.php

Virtualized data center

Data centers in cloud - presentation

Basics of cloud computing - presentation

Use pipe to perform Inter-Process Communication (IPC)

Problem statement: Write an IPC program using pipe. Process A accepts a character string and Process B inverses the string. Pipe is used to establish communication between A and B processes using Python or C++.

Solution: 

   A.    Basics of Inter-Process Communication (IPC)

Inter-Process-Communication (or IPC for short) are mechanisms provided by the kernel to allow processes to communicate with each other. On modern systems, IPCs form the web that binds together each process within large scale software architecture. 

The Linux kernel provides the following IPC mechanisms:

Ugrade Ubuntu 10.04 to Ubuntu 12.04 via terminal [closed]

Objective: 

Upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04 from Ubuntu 10.04 via terminal

Steps:

1. start terminal. Use shortcut alt+ctrl+t

2.  Install update-manager-core, if it is not already installed.

 pavan@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install update-manager-core 

3. Run the commands below to open upgrade manager's release  upgrade file

pavan@ubuntu:~$ sudo vi /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades 

4. set Prompt=lts if not set in the opened file. Save file and close it

5. Update all packages installed before you upgrade

pavan@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade & sudo apt-get autoremove

6. Finally begin the upgrade process

pavan@ubuntu:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade

when ask if you want to continue with upgrade, press Y or yes

7. After successful upgrade, cross check your Ubuntu version with below command

pavan@ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:    Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release:    12.04
Codename:    precise
pavan@ubuntu:~$  

8. You are done. Enjoy !!!

Display i-node information of given file

Problem statement: Display i-node information of given file using C++ or Python language

Solution:

    A.     Introduction

The inode (also known as Index Node) is a very basic concept related to Linux and UNIX filesystem. Each and every object/element in the filesystem is associated with an inode.

You must be aware of the fact that, most of the countries have given a unique identity to their citizens in the form of a unique identification number ('Aadhar Card' in India and 'SSN' in the USA) to identify an individual easily and uniquely. This also leads to make all the paper work corresponding to any citizen easier to be handled.

Just like these identification numbers for people, there is a unique identity of every member of a Linux filesystem which is known as Inode number and it uniquely exists for each and every individual file on Linux or Unix filesystem.

Reset Ubunut 12.04 root password using recovery mode on GRUB window

Reset Ubunut 12.04 root password using recovery mode

Setup Openstack using devstack on Ubuntu 12.04

Setup Openstack using devstack on Ubuntu 12.04

How to reset Fedora root password

Use Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and on top of it Openstack environment to launch Fedora and Cirros instances

Process & Threads presentations

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Foundation of Unix OS presentation