I followed the excellent Running Hadoop On Ubuntu Linux (Single-Node Cluster) guide to install Hadoop on my Macbook Pro running Mac OS X Leopard. Following are my notes on sections that needed special attention.

1. Sun Java 6
Leopard does not ship with Java 6, however you can download and install Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 instead. You may ( Read more... )

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Hoosgot (pronounced "Who's got") is a really great effort to bring Lazyweb back. The idea here is quite simple: Say you have a question whose answer has been evading you or you are just too lazy to research it yourself, you can send out a call for help on the Blogsphere. Just make sure that your blog pings the Technorati servers and the post in ( Read more... )

Technically, not my first blog...but one that isn't private or friends-only after quite a while. Hope to make this a regular feature!

And what better way to kick this off than to talk about this brilliant idea, reCAPTCHA. A CAPTCHA as you might be knowing is a kind of a reverse Turing test. Primarily used to deter abuse of web services from bots, it ( Read more... )