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How to chose a Hadoop File Format ?

Well, this is an interesting question and a very commonly faced issue by the Big Data developer considering to store data in the Hadoop, which offers to store the large files in a distributed manner. well here, the question is not the only tough part but answer is also a little tricky and requires a proper analysis before making call to chose a format. With my experience and understanding, I am trying to note down my thoughts on this and hopefully it will be an aid to you. Like i mentioned this requires an analysis, this is all about considering few particular factors: Tool of choice for the data processing Do the data structure/schema changes over the time ? Any impact if we split the data and process ? Whether the data is to be compressed or not what type of data to be processed Data volume whether the job is read intensive, update intensive or update intensive

What if you do not set the property 'hadoop.tmp.dir'?

In  Hadoop installation directory under the core-site.xml file in the conf directory there used to be a property 'hadoop.tmp.dir'. This property is used to define the directory at the local filesystem which will store the data for the namenode and the data node. There're three HDFS properties which contain hadoop.tmp.dir in their values- dfs.name.dir : directory where namenode stores its metadata, with default value ${hadoop.tmp.dir}/dfs/name . dfs.data.dir : directory where HDFS data blocks are stored, with default value ${hadoop.tmp.dir}/dfs/data . fs.checkpoint.dir : directory where secondary namenode store its checkpoints, default value is ${hadoop.tmp.dir}/dfs/namesecondary . Usually the default value for "hadoop.tmp.dir" is '/tmp/hadoop-{username}'. With many of the OS restarts, the 'tmp' directory contents are deleted and hence  you may loose the data directory for the namenode as well as th datanode content. And then if you...

PROBLEM: Windows XP hung at Shutdown

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Common Shutdown problem on Windows XP came from background applications or Windows Service which use a lot of time to close. This Shutdown problem can also caused by hung application, antivirus still working on background scan, auto updater and can either caused by low memory and processor speed. In worse case, computer will stay on hung position until it forced to turn of by pressing power button. In this case you can use AutoEndTask feature in Windows XP to force closing all the hung applications. T o enable this feature and make you computer shutdown faster, open  regedit and go to  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop . You need to change 3 String Value on this folder that is AutoEndTask, HungAppTimeout and WaitToKillAppTimeout. Set  AutoEndTask  to  1  to enable Auto Close (Auto End Task) feature, then set  HungAppTimeout  to  1000  and then set WaitToKillAppTimeout  to  2000 . Next go to  HKEY_LOC...

How to disable “This copy of Microsoft Office is not genuine” notification

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After installing the Office Genuine Advantage notification (KB949810) from Microsoft updates some office users were falsely accused by notifications like “This copy of Microsoft Office is not genuine”.  Here is a small “how to” which will show you how to disable this notifications. How to disable Office Genuine Advantage Notification in Office 2007 : Open any Office 2007 application. Here I will be showing the procedure using MS Excel. Click on the Office icon located at the left top in the Office Window. There click on the “Excel Options” . Click on the Excel Add-Ins in the left sidebar. In the manage list select COM Add-Ins and click on “Go”. In the COM Add-Ins Window uncheck the Office genuine Advantage Add-In. Click Ok.  8.Repeat the same procedure for all office apps.

: Make ur Windows Xp Genuine :

Legal Disclaimer : Any actions and or activities related to the material contained within this Website is solely your responsibility. Do not Missuse the Information given out here. The authors will not be held responsible in the event any criminal charges be brought against any individuals misusing the information in this Website to break the law. These are instructions on how to crack the latest version of Windows XP with Service Pack 2 that uses the registration key: JD3T2-QH36R-X7W2W-7R3XT-DVRPQ. **** IT WILL WORK WITH OTHER VERSIONS OF WINDOWS XP but not all! **** This will allow you to bypass the Microsoft Genuine Validation thingy this method works better than many others i've tried before. forget the cracks and injectors etc... this is the BEST WAY: 1) start > run > "regedit" (without the quotes of course) 2) go to the key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WPAEvents\OOBETimer ... and doubleclick on it. Then ch...

How to remove the text from the Desktop icon or create an unnamed icon?

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Desktop is the interface of Windows, which contain the icons, taskbar etc. that allow the user to interact with the computer to perform different operations. Usually the picture of icon represents its purpose so if you want your desktop looking very clean then you can remove the title under the desktop icons. May be you are thinking it is so easy, just go to rename option and set blank name or single spacebar entry but the problem is this, windows will not allow you to set blank name or name with single spacebar entry. Here interesting thing is this; window will allow you to use the ASCII code for a space, which is 0160.   First clear all the text from that icon. Now type the ASCII code, simply hold the Alt key, type the number 0160 from the number pad and release the Alt key then press Enter button to finish the process. Before    After   But if you want to remove the text of multiple icons, then repeat the ...

How to detect and delete the duplicate files on your computer?

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This utility program is used to search and delete the duplicate files and folder on your hard disk, so that operating system can access data more quickly and easily. You can search any kind of duplicate files on your computer, for example music, text and picture. You can scan files with same contents, folder, drives and hard disk with powerful search engine. When the scanning process is completed, you will see a list of actual files, list of duplicate files with size, creating time, access and write time then create free disk space by deleting duplicates. Duplicate File Detector has a very simple control panel to help the all level of users. You can scan almost any media CD/DVD, USB, external storage device, zip drive and network drive also. You can download this tool for any windows version. Download it and run the easy setup. click here to download Duplicate File Detector. After installation launch Duplicate File Detector, the first screen w...