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Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world’s fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 billion in total consideration. The acquisition accelerates Sun’s position in enterprise IT to now include the $15 billion [...]

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du -hs /var/www/
You may omit the directory path if you’d like to find out the size of the current directory that you are in.
du -hs
For more Linux/Unix commands, visit Useful Linux Commands page or refer to the following book.

Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming

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I have always wondered what the stats are like for well-known websites like google.com, yahoo.com, flickr.com and digg.com and today I found exactly what I wanted to know.
Some 3 months ago, complete.com posted a blog post on Top-50 Websites – Ranked by Unique Visitors.
First on the list is yahoo.com, standing at [...]

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Now facebook is not the only social networking site (I know) with funky widgets and applications. Friendster, the #1 social network in Asia and the third largest branded social network in the world, realised the popularity of applications and widgets among social network users today and introduced widgets and application to the site in [...]

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Remember all the talk about the founder of Wikipedia looking to build a human-powered search engine which took place some time last year? Well, looks like an alpha version of the search engine has been released and it is called wikia search.
Although in the About page it was mentioned that [...]

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There are many ways to block a website – there are thousands of website filter software available these days, but the easiest way to block an unwanted website without installing any software is by editing hosts file. Yes, that’s right. I only found that out after reading Block Unwanted Websites – by just editing [...]

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