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  How to check a port is taken by which program on Linux

Lots of you may have encountered some error message stating that the port has been taken by another program while trying to start a program on Linux. And you would want to know which program takes the port you want to use. This post will provide some feasible ways to check out which program is taking a specific port. lsof -i:[port] lsof is the command to list open files on Linux. And if you know more about Linux you should get to know everything on Linux is a file even including networ...

   LINUX,PORT,NETSTAT,LSOF     2018-08-12 04:27:57

  Fix SSL 'alert protocol version' issue while git clone remote repository

Git provides ways to securely connect to remote repository and clone remote repository to local machine. This post will teach you how to fix the "SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert protocol version" issue while cloning a remote repository. The issue would look like: If this error occurs, it is most probably caused by out of date git version being used.To improve its security awareness, some weak cryptographic algorithms have been disabled and all git clients should upgrade to latest ones to acc...

   GIT,GIT CLONE,GIT SECURITY     2018-07-08 05:41:39

  LinkedIn is out of China and replaced with LinkedIn Jobs

The popular job searching site LinkedIn has come out a special version for China which is just offering job searching capabilities and messaging capabilities in the connections. The social media capability like news feeds and peoples activities are stripped out. Now if you are in China and open LinkedIn app, it will prompt you and ask you to download an app called LinkedIn Jobs. You will not be able to dismiss the dialog and you are forced to download the other app if you wanna continue to...

   LINKEDIN,LINKEDIN JOBS,CHINA,MICROSOFT     2021-12-24 20:13:24

  Install and enable redis extension in PHP 5.X on Windows

Redis is frequently used as a caching layer for web applications to improve its performance. In PHP 5.x, if one wants to use Redis, the redis extension needs to be installed and enabled first. This post will show how to install and enable redis extension on Windows with PHP 5.X. Basically there are two dlls to be downloaded: php_redis.dll and php_igbinary.dll. Below are detailed steps Go to http://windows.php.net/downloads/pecl/releases/redis/2.2.7/ and find the respective php_redis zip ma...

   PHP,WINDOWS,REDIS,PHP 5.6     2021-07-11 03:52:18

  How to check when an API is introduced in GoLang

Normally people would not pay much attention to which GoLang version is being used as lots of functions are backward compatible. However there are cases where GoLang version does matter as some functions may not be supported by old version of GoLang. For example, strings.Builder is introduced in Go 1.10, but below code would fail to be compiled on Go 1.10. package main import ( "fmt" "strings" ) func main() { var b strings.Builder b.WriteString("polarisxu") fmt.Println(b.Cap()) } The ...

   GOLANG,API VERSION,GO TOOL     2021-02-07 00:43:24

  Privileged users get removed from database in GoDaddy shared hosting

GaDaddy is a famous web hosting platform where many people put their websites on its platform. If one has low budget and wanna a shared hosting, you can buy the service at GoDaddy and share some hosting resource with others. In such cases, there would be resource limit based on different plans. In this post, we will discuss one scenario which caused our application down caused by database usage on shared hosting plan and hope it helps readers who encounter similar issues. The issue we encounter...

   CPANEL,DATABASE,GODADDY,PRIVILEGED USER     2021-05-25 23:06:50

  IBM acquires Ustream to propel its cloud business

On January 21, 2016, IBM acquired Ustream, a leading live and on-demand video solution company, to propel its cloud service business. This acquisition will make IBM capable of providing enterprise live video stream service to the world. With this, a new member joining the IBM cloud service family. Ustream provides cloud-based video streaming to enterprises and broadcasters for everything from corporate keynotes to live music concerts. The company streams live and on-demand video to about 80 mil...

   IBM,CLOUD,IBM CLOUD,USTREAM     2016-01-23 06:18:36

  Find where the start up page is set in Firefox

Recently I encountered a weird behavior where a strange webpage showing up every time when I launched my Firefox. The first thought came into my mind is that my homepage of Firefox had been tampered. It might be changed because some software changed my browser settings to promote something. So the next immediate thing I went to check was to see my Firefox browser settings. To my surprise, the homepage setting was not touched. It would still open the Momentum screen which would display some beaut...

   WINDOWS,FIREFOX,HOMEPAGE,STARTUP PAGE,HAO123     2021-10-02 02:28:53

  Why (offset, limit) is slow in database select?

Starting from a problem Five years ago when I was working at Tencent, I found that MySQL request speed was very slow in the pagination scenario. With only 100,000 data, a select query on a single machine took about 2-3 seconds. I asked my mentor why, and he asked in return, "In an indexing scenario, what is the time complexity to get the nth largest number in MySQL?" The pursuit of the answer Confirming the scenario Assuming there is an index on the "status" column, a query like "select * from t...

   SLOW,LIMIT,OFFSET,MYSQL     2023-03-12 05:21:02

  Install and use GSpace to install apps from Google Play on Huawei Harmony OS

Huawei has released its own branded mobile OS Harmony OS sometime back and some Huawei device models now support installing or upgrading to use Harmony OS. Since this OS is Huawei's own OS and it doesn't come with Google Play by default which most of the current Android apps are hosted on. In this case, how can someone install the apps from Google Play on Huawei Harmony OS or use GMS services like Google Play, Google Maps? The solution provided by Huawei is to install GSpace which is an APP cont...

   HUAWEI,GOOGLE PLAY,HARMONYOS     2021-08-01 04:23:58

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