I started playing around with running reactJS app under the Windows Subsystem for Linux. In my case I opted to install the Ubuntu operating system. The installation of the Ubuntu subsystem itself went pretty smooth through this instructions (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10) . Then I used my favorite terminal tool ConEmu to access... View Article
I wrote in my previous article that my experience with Elementary OS was a good one and it’s still is. Today I’d like to share 2 handy customisations that helped me a lot with the experience. Minimize Button Yes, the original design language of Elementary OS does not have the... View Article
Being a fan of Sherlock Holmes the title of this article is something that pops up in my head almost immediately when I heard about Elementary OS. It turned out that I wasn’t wrong, everything about this Linux distribution is simple and clean, hence elementary. In the first glance, it’s... View Article
Recently I built a development machine running Ubuntu 17.04, it makes so much more sense given the technology stack that I am dealing with, such as reactjs, docker, java, etc. There was just one thing missing, which was 1Password. Of course there is also the online 1password offering, but I... View Article
So enter Luakit. An extremely lightweight and highly configurable web browser. It is based on webkit and GTK+. Now, as lean and mean Luakit can be, its user-friendliness can’t be rated as high. Therefore I have created this guide to help installing Luakit and configuring some options that I think will... View Article
Welcome to the part 2 of Raspberry Pi Retro Gaming Mania, today we’ll take a look at DosBox, the greatest DOS emulators around. We are going to go through the least painful ways setting up DosBox from beginning to playing a game on the Raspberry Pi. By the way if... View Article
Here is something fun for the weekend, setting up a Raspberry Pi using normal VGA Monitor. I love the Raspberry Pi, I have the original 256MB version and I was using it as a video player for a while for my HDMI TV. However it wasn’t really capable to act... View Article
[singlepic id=17 w=320 h=240 float=left] Couple years ago I used to have a MacBook Pro with Core 2 Duo processor (2007 model). It was great back then, however as time passed after 3 years; I needed a laptop with higher resolution. So I bought a Sony with 1080 HD screen.... View Article
A lot of companies have implemented firewalls and closed off direct external internet access for security reasons. This results in developers going through proxy servers (internal to the company) in order to access external websites. Normally, these proxy server can be configured through the OS global configuration or through individual... View Article
Sometimes you need to run a command in the terminal as another user in the system. I forgot the way to do this all the time, so here’s a little code snippets on how to do so. sudo su -s /bin/sh <insert user here> -c "CMD HERE"