Hyper Terminal is a communication program that came free with Windows XP Operating System. Hyper Terminal is usually used to send and receive characters over the serial port or USB serial devices. It is not included in Windows Vista / Windows 7 operating system but most of the people still use hyper terminal to control their serial devices. One of the alternatives is to use the good old Hyper Terminal Program that came with Windows XP.
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We certainly could do with some good news at a time when everything seems to be doom and gloom.And Dr. Umar Saif has provided us with the opportunity to celebrate. MIT has named Umar Saif as one of the world’s top young innovators for 2011.
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If you use Linux you most likely have heard of the init.d directory. But what exactly does this directory do? It ultimately does one thing but it does that one thing for your entire system, so init.d is very important. The init.d directory contains a number of start/stop scripts for various services on your system. Everything from acpid to x11-common is controlled from this directory. Of course it’s not exactly that simple.
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RedHat Linux commands to reload or restart network (login as root user):
# service network restart
OR
# /etc/init.d/network restart
To start Linux network service:
# service network start
To stop Linux network service:
# service network stop
Debian / Ubuntu Linux commands to reload or restart network:
# /etc/init.d/networking restart
To start Linux network service:
# /etc/init.d/networking start
To stop Linux network service:
# /etc/init.d/networking stop
Ubuntu Linux user use sudo command with above Debian Linux command:
# sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
To start Linux network service:
# sudo /etc/init.d/networking start
To stop Linux network service:
# sudo /etc/init.d/networking stop
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