OS X tip of the day.. Mounting an ntfs drive

So, your friend lends you a hard drive with a collection of movies, music, pics  etc.. you plug it into your mac and nothing happens... the diskutil GUI shows the disk but you can't see it in finder! Chances are you have been give a disk that has been formatted using the NTFS file system.  Damn! you say, but fret not. Here is a quick and easy method to get access to that NTFS formatted drive. 1. Open up a terminal - command+space and type terminal 2. At the terminal, enter the following command: diskutil list You will see output that...

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A fundamental analysis of Hadoop

What is Hadoop? In simple terms, Hadoop is a tool used for storage and processing of large scale data sets on clusters of commodity hardware.  It was developed by two engineers at Yahoo and is now part of the Apache open source license.   This post  here is intended to give the you at best, a very basic overview of the key components of Hadoop. It is by no means and in depth analysis of Hadoop. I myself have only just opened the door into the world of big data and I'm simply sharing what I have discovered so far.   Components...

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An Introduction to Digital Analytics

 What is it? Digital Analytics or to quote Avinash Kaushik: The analysis of qualitative and quantitative data from your business and the competition to drive a continual improvement of the online experience that your customers and potential customers have which translates to your desired outcomes (online and offline)  With massive growth in connected devices (smart phones, tablets etc)  the standard  purchasing funnel:...

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