Windows XP SP3 is the last official release of the XP edition and has been removed from end of life back in 2014. The nostalgic side of me, got my hands dirty and got a really old legal image I built back in 2009 restored back in action. I tried to install a fresh version […]

DNS are domain name servers. If you are online, it is almost certain that your machine or mobile device is interacting with one, right this second. DNS servers are machines that hold information that translates a URL (i.e. www.mywebsite.com) to a series of IP numbers (either IP v4 xxx:xxx:xxx:xxx or IP v6). Your ISP (internet […]

To export and backup an image from VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6.0, first use the vSphere client and login to the server. As vSphere client only works on windows, you will need to install vSphere client on a windows machine or use virtual box. To backup, Select the VM you want to backup Select File -> Export -> […]

LMDE stands for Linux Mint Debian Edition. It is a rolling release, meaning all updates are installed progressively rather than a big bang version 2015 / version 2016.2 etc. Things might break, but in reality, its quite stable. When installing LMDE 2 ( https://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php ),  I recommend using the MATE edition. You can see a history […]

If you are working on security, especially online security, you will need to know about SSL. So what is SSL (Secure Socket Layer)? It encrypts data transmission from (1) server to server or (2) server to you. This is very important as it prevents man in the middle attacks such as site forgery, especially for […]

Starting Machine Learning with Apache Spark (http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/index.html). First setup Java via HomeBrew: $ brew cask install java And then add in the Java Home environment variable (as recommended by Apple). $ vim ~/.bash_profile export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home) Setup and run apache-spark in python mode interactively. $ brew install apache-spark $ pyspark –master local[2] … References http://www.mkyong.com/java/how-to-set-java_home-environment-variable-on-mac-os-x/

Download ubuntu server 14.04 LTS from Ubuntu Go through the standard installation via virtualbox sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install build-essential module-assistant sudo m-a prepare On virtualbox menu bar – click on the Devices > insert Guest Additions … open the finder (if there is a popup) sudo […]

If you are in software development and web development, you are likely to have come across Docker as well as Vagrant. These are the two important Virtualisation tools that you will use for your development/production workflows. For MacOSX you can install via Dockertoolbox: http://docs.docker.com/mac/started/ . The Mac version is quite straightforward; either you can download the docker […]

If you come across running out disk space below: “The upgrade needs a total of 25.3 M free space on disk `/boot`. Please free at least an additional 25.3 M of disk space on `/boot`. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of former installations” $ sudo apt-get clean. You can run the following # […]

Over the past few years, there have been a surge of open-source browsers. From the days of netscape, we see many new flavours of browsers currently in the market today. I say top 10 but without any preference of order. Tor Browser – An fully privacy browser that seems to be under survellance from CIA. […]