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It's me, Arif N. In this blog I'll write about my adventure related to computer, programming, and anything that I found interesting. I wish you a happy reading.. :D

In software development, version control system (VCS) hold an important role. Especially when the project is collaborated by many programmers. Besides to keep tracks of changes, version control could helps handle task distribution and later project integration from the programmers. Basically, there are two flavors of version control system: centralized and distributed. There are many [...]

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Universities or companies tend to have a very strict Internet access policy. They usually deployed a proxy server to filter and denied access to some websites that they thought could be dangerous to them. Sometimes they just block access to several social networking sites or certain email providers to restrain their network users for wasting [...]

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When this blog was created for the first time, I used free themes available on any sites. As time goes by, I want this blog to have some personal touch. So I learned to create my own WordPress theme. I created some themes and install it on this blog. Some people said it was good, [...]

I was excited when Canonical decided to remodel Ubuntu’s interface with Unity shell. I spent some times installed it and configured it. There are still some bugs in it (at that time), and I decided to try GNOME 3. When I was using GNOME3, I do some works with Hadoop. I use Netbeans and run [...]

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In the development phase of Hadoop MapReduce program, you will be involved with testing your program on a real cluster with small data to make sure that it’s working correctly. To do that, you must package your application into jar file, then run it with Hadoop jar command on the terminal. Then, you check the [...]

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