James John – Software Engineer
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I never thought I would reach a point in my career where I had to write code specifically to “slow down” a computer until I started writing low-level network code in C. If you have spent time in the trenches of systems programming, you know the feeling. You build a robust system, but the moment […]
So today, I am about to make a switch from Debian to Arch. When I installed my Debian, I had not known about installing /etc, /var and others in different partitions. Now I want to backup my /var/www/html which contains most of my project and clients’ to an external drive, but node_modules!!! There are many […]
Been very long I updated this blog, too bad… So few weeks ago I added 1TB HDD to my 256SSD laptop and I decided to move my VirtualBox machine installation folder to the larger space so I can expand and have more space in my home directory. This worked, I am going to show how […]
Every of my posts are attached to experience and events, so this is not an exemption 🙂 . I had to share some folders to a friend and at same time I don’t want him to see some of the files so he won’t steal them 😀 I bet you’ve been in same position, which […]
After a cool morning on upgrading to Fedora 27, I faced an issue when i tried to resume a web project I was working on. Apache wasn’t running and I checked what was wrong with And caught this error as part of the debug: Apache is running a threaded MPM, but your PHP Module […]
Amazing thing is controlling your PC remotely, KDEConnect is making that possible. If you are wondering what is KDE Connect, you should take a look here. Firstly, I must talk about the poor UX. I didn’t know the command feature has been on my devices for long, I thought it is still coming as an […]
After 2yrs ago of using GNOME and fishing out fonts that look good on it, in my adventue on KDE Plasma, I found fonts too that can make Plasma look more sleek! Guess it’s been my mission to find fresh fonts even with my hate for UI 😀 So, again I found 3 fonts for […]
On moving from the Windows environment to the Linux, you might get to a point you wish to share files and printers through the network. Yes, we do that too, you can share files and printers from a Linux machine to a Windows machine using Samba. Samba? Samba is a free software re-implementation of the […]
Smooth font is one the sleek things I like in graphics, even in my IDEs. Without them; there’s nothing I admire in a view. Moved to Fedora some time last week and I had to reinstall KDE – my favourite desktop, I lost my configurations because I needed a new and fresh install. I found […]
By default Debian Distribution doesn’t come with a boot screen, but just bunch of debug messages on booting. I know I run a server-like distribution, but I like using it as a Desktop PC, Linux is Linux right? 😉 And there comes Plymouth Plymouth presents a graphic animation (also known as bootsplash) while the boot […]