James John – Software Engineer

Setting Recursively Different File Permissions on Directories and Files in Linux

In the directory your Web Server is serving, you might need some permission on files and directories for security purposes. As www-data is the common user for Web Servers and it has to own a file for it to have access to it, sometimes we don’t create a file or directory with the www-data guy […]

Setting Python3 as your Default Shell Python in Ubuntu

Default Ubuntu Python package version is 2.7, while in my Python class I use 3.4 and everything I keep typing python3 whenever I want to run python. Want to turn 3.4 to your default? Easy, BASH made this available by providing space for aliases in the config. Aliases is not only for this function, I […]

Why I don’t Watch NollyWood Movies

I might be a proudly Nigerian but not to the side of Nollywood, their movies really sucks to me. Can you believe that once I take a look at a Nollywood movie cover paper I can close my eyes and tell you how the movie is gonna start and end? They are damn too predictable […]

My View in Church and Dressing

Ye, I better not talk about this but I wanna talk about it 🙂 . I see how dressing and church is becoming a big issue between churches especially here in Nigeria, some churches never bother about what you dress to church while some does but at last we all see the Spirit of God […]

Living by What you Want to Live With – Never get Influenced

As at when I made this post am 20 still I see myself living the life I want to live and fighting not to get influenced to life I don’t wanna live. The quote is right that bad company corrupt good manners, you can’t keep a good tomato in the midst of bad ones and […]

Reducing Apache Memory Consumption – Process PHP with FastCGI

What is FastCGI? CGI are programme written to help the processing of Perl Language that has been written for the web and they also help the Web Server in processing requests and handling Webpages.

Setting Up FTP Server In Ubuntu 14.04 Using VSFTPD

Server is up without FTP, will you be using SSH all the time? Nah! Time to create an FTP Server for your clients to interact with files and data in your server. In this tutorial I will try to make things easier for you by God’s grace 🙂 I assume you are using Ubuntu 14.04 […]

Modify Apache ServerTokens to your Custom Value Using Mod_Security Module

I can view any server software any site is using. Cool ye? Why not be unpredictable! I like being unpredictable 😉 View your current or any site’s server software by visiting here

Configuring Simple Firewalls in Ubuntu 14.04 Using UFW

When building up a Web Server, especially Unmanaged all you have in mind is how to secure your server right? Now you need a firewall to block and open some ports in your server.

Don’t Panick! Restore Deleted Files in Your Android Device Using DiskDigger (Root)

It was an awkward moment for me when I mistakenly deleted a valuable picture of mine lol. Might have happened to you that’s why you are reading this post 😛 . Well, I never panicked, as I thought “If there is a way to restore data in a deleted or formatted drive in Windows, am […]