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		<title>Generate MD5 Checksum On AIX</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been looking for a command to generate MD5 checksum values on AIX 4 years ago. There was a need then to get the checksum values to compare if the files were the same. Then, I used the sum command. Today, I found this command, csum. With this command, you can generate an MD5 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alvinsim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=439363&amp;post=124&amp;subd=alvinsim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Must Have Windows &#8216;Tools&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a list of my must have tools whenever I setup my Windows machine. These &#8216;tools&#8217; are freely available for download and use unless specified. They are not ordered in any particular order. Notepad++ This is one of my favourite text editors. It&#8217;s light, fast, and has a fantabulous plug-in called SourceCookifier. Notepad++ is open [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alvinsim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=439363&amp;post=96&amp;subd=alvinsim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Setting Java Environment In Windows</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Append the Java JDK bin directory to the environment variable &#8220;path&#8221; C:\&#62; echo %PATH% C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_18\bin;C:\Program Files\GTK2-Runtime\bin;C:\Program Files\WinSCP\;C:\Program Files\Vim\vim73 &#160; Set the JAVA_HOME environment path C:\&#62; echo %JAVA_HOME% C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_18 &#160; Set the CLASSPATH to point to the %JAVA_HOME%\lib\tools.jar. C:\&#62; echo %CLASSPATH% C:\C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_18\lib\tools.jar<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alvinsim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=439363&amp;post=81&amp;subd=alvinsim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NOHUP</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[nohup is a command used in UNIX/LINUX environments to ignore the Hang Up signal, i.e. exiting the console. The job will still be running even when the user logs out. Recently, my colleague and I encountered a problem while running a job in the background. Although we used the nohup command, but while exiting the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alvinsim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=439363&amp;post=78&amp;subd=alvinsim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TO GTC&#8217;S UNHAPPY CUSTOMER</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Bency, Firstly, why are you spamming my blog with unrelated comments. If you have a problem with my work or me personally, you can directly email or IM me. My contact details are already on my website (www.alvinsim.com). Secondly, after reading all your comments only I realize what the problem is. I&#8217;m not in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alvinsim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=439363&amp;post=72&amp;subd=alvinsim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alvin Sim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article shows the steps in setting up a Java environment in a Linux system. The Java SDK version which will be installed is 1.4.2 which was downloaded from Sun Microsystems and the Linux involved is Oracle Enterprise Linux (based on the Red Hat distribution). Download Java SDK. The file which I downloaded was j2sdk-1_4_2_19-linux-i586-rpm.bin. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alvinsim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=439363&amp;post=63&amp;subd=alvinsim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hug A Developer Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have been cruel to your developers, stop! And give them a hug. They are in pain.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alvinsim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=439363&amp;post=54&amp;subd=alvinsim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Oracle Tablespaces</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 09:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our customers are in the midst of reallocating their UAT DB server&#8217;s volume group. There are currently two volume groups &#8211; rootvg, datavg. And temporarily, the datavg has to be removed. Inside the datavg volume group are two directories &#8211; /oraBackup and /oradata. The oraBackup directory contains dump files and the datafiles are in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alvinsim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=439363&amp;post=48&amp;subd=alvinsim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This Is Open Source</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a good example of what open source means. I&#160;saw this notice on my office lobby&#8217;s wall<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alvinsim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=439363&amp;post=47&amp;subd=alvinsim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ORA 00257</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While importing an Oracle&#8217;s dump file (15Gb) to one of our client&#8217;s schemas, I encountered a problem. My import script has the feedback parameter turned on for every 100,000 records. After an hour, my import was stuck. It should have gone through but somehow it didn&#8217;t for the last 200,000 thousand records. I opened up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alvinsim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=439363&amp;post=43&amp;subd=alvinsim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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