Add External Jar files in Android application (noclassdeffound error)

It took some time to figure out, but here is the solution.

When working with Eclipse, if you want to include external jars into your package, just manually copy the jar files into your_project_name/libs/ folder.

Then refresh your project and just run your application.

Tadaa!

Pig store data in compressed format

Its really easy to compress data while using Pig in compressed format using bz2 format.All you need to do is add '.bz2' extension to the output directory. For e.g.,

STORE data into 'compressedoutput.bz2' USING SomeStore();

Taadaa!!! You are done!

Aother advantage of bz2 is this format is splittable.So if some other subsequent Map/Reduce job is going to read this data, it can be split giving more parallelism.

Awesome easy? isn't it?!

wget with proxy

vey simple but I forget the syntax everytime I want to use it. So, making it available for people like me who quickly want to get to the answer.

How to use proxuy with wget:


export http_proxy=http://proxyserver:port

Then use wget like

"wget -c http://url-u-want-to-wget-with-proxy"


HTH

Hadoop issue: jobtracker.info could only be replicated to 0 nodes, instead of 1

After wasting 36 hours of my life, finally found a way to bypass the problem.
Instead of using hadoop/bin/start-all.sh, run each of the commands separately:
* ./bin/hadoop-daemon.sh start namenode
* ./bin/hadoop-daemon.sh start jobtracker
* ./bin/hadoop-daemon.sh start tasktracker
* ./bin/hadoop-daemon.sh start datanode


There still may be some intermediate issue with dfs dir. Try deleting the dfs dir and cleanup everything of the form /tmp/hadoop*
Then do a hadoop namenode -format.

Note: make sure before doing all these things you have killed /stopped all the hadoop processes running on your machine.

Life is ...good!!!

well...Life is "Tough"!!!Yes, I know i named this post as 'life is good'..but right now life is tough for me.why?
I am not very good with words..but in this particular case,i can write a pretty good essay about a few things/incidents - which is causing some discomfort to me.But that will be the subject of another post.

Still, I really thank those things/incidents for teaching me some more things about life - the day i get through this, I would be richer ...not by money,but by some 'gyan'.

And because i am going through some discomfort now, i will cherish the coming sunny days more than what i would have w/o all these.


I know its not easy now...but w/o it life would not have been so enjoyable.


Signing off for today,
Souri

MAC OS cmd + tab not working!!!

Its 1:41 am and although tomorrow I will be working from home,its pretty late.As I was about to hit the sack, I found some issue which I may need to take care of tomorrow(actually, today as it is already past midnight).So other than taking some early measures for that I see that my Mac is not working, specifically cmd + tab is not working along with the supercool Dock and as most Mac users would agree with me, without this you feel kind of strange(non-productive).
A simple solution exists- just restart the system and most proabably it would start working.But as many fellow engineers know,restarting the system is just not-the-thing we look forward to.

So after some soul searching , I tried the following few simple tricks:

1. Somehow open a Finder window ( cmd + m ).
2. Then search for Terminal.app in Applications.
3. Start Terminal
* do "ps -eaf | grep -i Dock"
* then kill the process for Dock
* in my machine it looked like: /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/MacOS/Dock -psn_0_45067
4. The Dock would restart automatically ( as probably it is some kind of service driven thing) and tadaaa- cmd+tab also starts functioning.

Goodnight :)

Amar sohore..

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