Little Master turns 35 day

sachin_bday Sachin Tendulkar considered to be the ‘Don Bradman’ of the modern era turns 35 today. Born on April 24 1973 in Mumbai Sachin has played 147 Test Matches with 11782 runs and 417 ODIs with more than 16000 runs and stays unmatchable. He made his test debut in 1989 when he was 16 and is considered as one of the greats who have ever played the game of cricket. As a die-hard fan of Sachin I feel honored to write about him in my first blog. I wish him to recover soon from his groin injury and wish him all glory and success in his life. The greatest icon is considered as on the Gentle Man who ever existed in the game of cricket. Blessed with lot of cricketing talents Sachin is a humble man.

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April 24th, 2008 | Leave a Comment

How to solve Address or Port already in use error in java?

java.net.BindException: Address already in use: JVM Bind is one of the most popular error among java developers and guys who do socket error programming in some other language too. But with respect to java this error is much familiar with socket programming and during web development. This error happens for ports 80 (HTTP) , 1098 (RMI) when it is used by other applications that is running on the same PC or server. So I am going to explain how to debug and solve this problem.

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April 22nd, 2008 | 2 Comments

How to find open ports in your PC?

Currports-logo Everybody knows port is nothing but a communication channel that is used to pass information between computers and has got an associated port number. Can I call it as a logical connection point ? Every application in your computer or laptop will occupy will make use of a particular port in your system. Ports and Port numbers are mostly used in programming sockets and the range of port numbers can vary from 0 to 65535. For eg) all HTTP connections use port 80. Lets not go deep into that subject. Here I am going to tell you about some utility that gives you information about open ports in your PC, its associated process name, protocol, process path etc. The tool is called CurrPorts.

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April 21st, 2008 | Leave a Comment

JPEG Image Resize using SmallImage2

smallImage Often larger image on any webpage or a blog makes the webpage to load slowly. On a slower network or hosting it may take ages to load which annoys the user or reader at times. The response time of any webpage depends on the page size which in turn depends on the number of images and size of images in the page. As the the size of the image increases along with the the number, it makes things horrible. Often publishers take considerable time to resize the image to make it ready for the web. Some of the tools available to do this job are not free. Today we are going to discuss about a JPEG resize tool for Mac called SmallImage2.

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April 20th, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Demonoid is up and running again officially

demonoidOn April 18th one of my friend who is highly obsessed with torrents, got a mail from the Demonoid Moderator or Site Admin conveying the good news officially and as usual he can access his account. Demonoid which is one of the best BitTorrent tracker created by a Serbian popularly known as Deimos has gone offline months back in now back online and is up and running. Demonoid went offline somewhere in November I believe due to alleged threats from CRIA, Canadian Recording Industry Association is now back. It has been told that the site went offline because of the pressure from anti-piracy and copyright activists.

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April 19th, 2008 | 1 Comment