I guess you all have heard the news now. Sun Microsystem is going to acquire MySQL AB, the company behind the most popular open source database server, MySQL anytime soon. After this acquisition, Sun would control the Java platform, JavaME embedded programming platform, SunOS/Solaris operating system, workstations, StarOffice suite, and now MySQL. Seems appropriate to […]
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Using the nearest server to your location does not guarantee that you will get faster connection speed, other factors such as network congestions, faulty routers and bandwidth may affect the speed of your software installations. Thus it is best to update the sources.lst file from time to time to keep updated with the fastest mirror […]
Here is how you can squeeze out few more kilobytes from your zip or gz files by using advzip or advdef from AdvanceCOMP package (installable from Ubuntu respository) : advpng -z4 example.zip Output [code] mypapit:$ advzip -z4 example.zip 761604 655677 86% example.zip 761604 655677 86% [/code] Saves you almost 6KB per file. Similarly gzip files […]