Category Archives: Linux

PHP and xampp

It is that time of the year when I want to restart my programming skills and get my hands dirty learning new skills Agenda: Develop web applications using PHP and deploy it on my justin-joseph.com server Following are the steps, Download and installation Download XAMPP from https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html and chose ‘7.1.1 / PHP 7.1.1’. Install it to the… Read More »

C# development on Mac

PrologueI am pretty excited to begin C# coding on my new macbook pro.The primary reason is to begin coding whenever my heart sets in, without waiting for the system to load up and open Visual Studio 2015. Back from the days of linux yore and Linux for you magazine, I was aware of Mono, the… Read More »

Raspberry Pi 2 is here

As per the suggestion from Sri, I ordered the latest iteration of this great pocket sized computer from Amazon, and it was delivered yesterday. I did not waste much time and decided to start with exploring and this great concept of computing. Since the new Pi makes use of MicroSD card ( the ones we… Read More »

Virtualizing my home PC

Based on positive reviews from lifehacker, I decided to give a try for Virtual box. Since my VPS runs on CentOS. Got a copy of centos from kickass torrents. I made sure, I downloaded the correct version, namely 7. Started virtual box and created a new virtual machine for CentOS and selected RedHat 64 bit… Read More »

First install on VPS – htop

Successfully connected to the server using mremoteng and I was experimenting with a few linux commands. I was happy that I remember many of the commands from the linux days. From the site http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/show-all-running-processes-in-linux, I am across htop, I decided to try out htop, but unfortunately it was not installed. So I gave the regular command #… Read More »

Building a RAID System at Home

Getting the right system – Hardware specs What I am looking for ?   Support for atleast 2 6.0 Gbps SATA drives Atleast 4 3.0 GB/s SATA connectors Support for atleast 8 GB RAM at 1666 USB 3.0 support HDMI or DVI Connector 1 GBps or 10 GBps ethernet connection Support to add addtional 1… Read More »

Back to Linux after 8 years

It has been a very long while since I played with linux. I mean, ‘play’ as in, code, install and also ‘play’ ofcourse. Since its been a while, I wanted to know the best distro( linux distribution ) with the least amount of fuss that could get me back into the linux world. I wasted… Read More »

Easy Tomato installation on ASUS RT-N16

I heard about modding router, way back in 2004. Back then, the only option I was aware of, was the famous open source router Linksys WRT54G. I downloaded ebooks and drooled about the day when I would finally get my hands on one of these and hack them to my heart’s content. Fast forward 2013.… Read More »

Brand new sleek openSuse 11.0 for you

(source:http://counter.opensuse.org) Hi guys, 6 more days to go for June 19- The official release date of the much awaited OpenSuse 11.0, And the excitement has been growing like never before. The new release features all the latest packages as well as the much hyped and awaited KDE 4. Check out some cool screenshots and a… Read More »