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Installation of Windows 8 Developer preview on VHD

It is better to try out window 8 on a VHD as the performance hit will be only on the HDD, rest everything will be on the actual hardware. Windows 8 Download link To install windows8 we can either burn a DVD or create a flash drive and install from it, here I’m using a flash drive. To create a …

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Know the service running in a port – Linux

In our previous article we explained the steps for windows. Here you can find the steps to identify the service running in a port on linux . Here we used commands “fuser” and “PS”. I am using apache2 web server  on port 80. Replace your port number with 80 (my example with port 80 ) Run following command to find …

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Find which application/service is running in a port – Windows

Most of the applications are using standard ports, some cases user or application will assign different ports for the application. For example Port 80 is the default port for IIS, if you are trying to start a different web applications it will say error message like “port 80 already in use” . Or you start the third-party web application before …

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Printing command from history without executing

We all know that, BASH stores the commands we entered in the terminal to .bash_history, we can see those commands using history command. Commands in the history can be executed by ! followed by the number,  !5 (5th command in the history will get executed). But what if we only need to print the command, instead of executing, we can …

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Use of windows start RUN

Windows Run is the easiest way to access the programs and utility. For example if you want to access application like calculator, you can simply enter text “calc” in to run window and press enter. it will execute the calculator program. if you are a geek reduce the usage of mouse, it will increase the speed of computing. Sometimes we …

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Sharing Workbook – Simultaneous edit on excel files

Did you ever faced problem with consolidating excel sheets ? Usually we share large excel files work with colleagues. and consolidate after the their work. Some time we need to share one excel file to others and they want to edit it simultaneously. Most of the users share the file in network (File server / FTP). But if some one …

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