Linux Tips : Setting Java programming environment in Ubuntu Linux

I do a lot of programming in Ubuntu Linux. A couple months ago I started to learn JAVA, previously I have used to program in C/C++ which fortunately Ubuntu is already built in GCC (GNU C Compiler) so everything works out of the box. Unfortunately the case is not the same as JAVA, Ubuntu is not shipped with Java JDK/JRE. So, you must install everything by yourself.

I found out one of my favourite IDE in Windows that support JAVA programming is also available on Linux, it is NetBeans. Netbeans is free Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that supports a lot of languages,

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Linux Tips : Automatically find Fastest Repository Server in Ubuntu

I used to have problem when updating security update on my Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), the connection was extremely slow even when I’m connected to fast network and occasionally the download was dropped without any reason which could lead a disastrous results. So I’ve been researching and I figured it out the problem is with my poor choice of repository server. The Repository Server I’ve had been using is apparently have some problem with their connection. Problem found and this lead to another problem, how do I look for the fastest Repository Server since there’re so many out there.

The answer is

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Some Example Common DOS commands

In previous article I talk about definition of command prompt and real life example of Command Line Interface (e.g Linux). Now, let’s see some common example of DOS commands. If you want to see full list of commands in DOS you can look up Command-line reference A-Z in official Microsoft Website.

Note: Where example files (e.g., file.ext, file1, file2), file extensions (.ext), directories (e.g., diry, diry1, diry2), commands (e.g., command), and drive letters (e.g., a:, b:, c:) are given, substitute the name of your own file, directory, command, or drive letter. Since DOS is not case sensitive, you can type these commands

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