Revive your old laptop back in service using Lubuntu a light-weight version of Ubuntu. I bought this Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3 in 2012 when I was working in Muscat, Oman. This netbook has a blazing Intel Atom processor 1.66GHz, a 2GB DDR3 RAM, and 10″ LCD screen. I was initially thinking of giving it away because […]
You may want to completely erase the partition table of your USB flash drive including the boot record. In macOS you do easily do that using diskutil. During this COVID-19 lockdown in Malaysia, I wanted to use my weekend time in installing Linux on an old laptop. It turns out that old laptop only support […]
Overview I started my homelab journey in 2017 setting up small server to host my files and test my web applications. Today, I am giving my small network a bit of an upgrade by having a redundant Internet connection using a TP-Link ER6020. I appreciate that TP-Link made it affordable for us to buy business […]
Background In 2009, I was working as an IT manager/software developer/computer engineer in the middle-east. During that period, I developed business software applications for the company, applications like Human Resource System, Purchase Order System, Cheque Writer and web applications. Being a lone software developer my goal is to deliver software in less time with zero […]
In this post, I will show you a simple example how to use SQLite in Golang. SQLite is one of the popular embedded, file-based database in the market used by companies like Apple, Airbus, Google, Skype, Autodesk and Dropbox. You can checkout the list of well-know SQLite user in this link https://www.sqlite.org/famous.html Requirements Knowledge in […]
Today, I will show you how you can generate image and add text using Python. I was working on a project requires to generate an image for facebook og:image (featured image) and since this project is source code sharing tool adding a source code snippet into the featured image make sense. I used this library […]
In this post I will show you how to access Windows Shared folders from Ubuntu Linux. 1. Install Samba sudo apt install samba 2. In Nautilus file browser, Click Other Locations from the left panel and then enter the url of the windows share or IP address. 3. Enter user credential if required. In common […]
In 2017, I created SkyPaste.com to send configuration scripts from Linux terminal to a web browser. The old skypaste is still available at old.skypaste.com. To learn Golang more, I decide to use Golang to rewrite and launch SkyPaste with similar features to pastebin.pl, a text and source code posting website that I saw when I […]
In this guide I will teach you how to create a bootable Ubuntu USB on macOS with Unetbootin. Since Unetbootin is also available for Windows and Linux, this tutorial can be use on those operating system as well with minor differences. Ubuntu Linux is one of the most user friendly Linux distribution in the market. […]
In the past recent days, I noticed an automated brute force attempt to login into my server via SSH. The default port for SSH is port 22 and having an online server exposes you into an automated attacks. One way to prevent or limit this type of attack is by changing the default SSH port. […]