Dagu on June 1st, 2009

There are so many ways to extract zip or tar.gz or tar.bz2. You can use GUI or command line. In this tutorial, I would like to show you how to extract compressed files using command line.
Extract zip file:
unzip file_name.zip
Extract tar.gz file:
tar -xzf file_name.tar.gz
or
tar -xvzf file_name.tar.gz
Extract tar.bz2 file:
tar -xjf file_name.tar.bz2
or
tar -xvjf file_name.tar.bz2
Notice in tar command, there [...]

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Dagu on April 19th, 2009

This tutorial is still about creating environment variables, just like my last tutorial. But now I create environment variable in Linux, not Windows.
To create or edit environment variable in linux is very easy. You may create or edit environment variable from terminal.
The syntax is: export VAR_NAME=var_content
For example:
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/sun-java6
Yes, very easy right? If you want to [...]

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Dagu on April 18th, 2009

If you are Windows user and need to create environment variables (some programming language need to set environment variables to run well), here is the step by step. Note that this tutorial is based on Windows XP.
1) Right click icon My Computer and choose Properties. You can find My Computer in Windows Explorer, or in [...]

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Dagu on April 15th, 2009

Java is one of the most popular programming languages. I learned Java a few years ago. I learned it in Windows OS. Now I need to install it in Ubuntu. Here are the steps:
1) You need to update Ubuntu Repository. Type this command:
sudo apt-get update
Just wait till your Ubuntu Repository updated.
2) Now it’s time to [...]

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Dagu on April 6th, 2009

As we know, Microsoft had released a brand new browser, Internet Explorer 8. This browser can render HTML and CSS much better than IE 6. I admit that Microsoft has so many improvements in IE 8. I hope all users who use IE 6 should upgrade their browser to IE 8.
But, I can’t make it [...]

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