The Secure Shell, or SSH, provides a way of running command line and graphical applications, and transferring files, over an encrypted connection. SSH uses up to 2,048-bit encryption with a variety of cryptographic schemes to make sure that if a cracker intercepts your connection, all they can see is useless gibberish. It is both a … Read more
There are a lot of posts out there that purport to contain the answer on how to properly install Home Brew on MacOSX and then install Midnight Commander, but a lot of the posts contain commands that give errors. This is how to do it properly. Run this command in a terminal. ruby -e "$(curl … Read more
To install the MATE desktop environment on Ubuntu 20.04, run this simple command. jason@jason-desktop:~/Documents$ sudo apt install mate-desktop-environment-extras mate-common mate-desktop-environmentjason@jason-desktop:~/Documents$ sudo apt install mate-desktop-environment-extras mate-common mate-desktop-environment Then you need to logout of the desktop session and restart the desktop login manager to allow it to detect MATE. Press Control-Alt-F2 and then login to a virtual … Read more
The Windows Defender anti-virus and anti-malware application is now available for Linux. This is very easy to install on Ubuntu. I am using Ubuntu 18.04 and it works a treat. Before installation, ensure you have the required packages installed. sudo apt install gpg apt-transport-https libplist-utilssudo apt install gpg apt-transport-https libplist-utils To begin the installation, we … Read more
Install the Google Earth viewer easily on Ubuntu. This allows viewing any place on the Earth you wish to see. As well as street view and 360 photos. Download Google Earth from this link. https://dl.google.com/dl/earth/client/current/google-earth-pro-stable_current_amd64.deb. Then easily install it on Ubuntu. 4.4 Fri Jun 19 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ sudo dpkg -i google-earth-pro-stable_current_amd64.deb This will easily … Read more
Ubuntu 20.04 is a very good Linux experience. This is very easy to install and use. Here are some useful tips for setting up your Ubuntu 20.04 distribution after installation. Put the dock on the bottom of the screen. Go to the settings dialog and find the appearance section, then set the dock on the … Read more
The Corona virus app is live and is becoming a big success. This new app for Apple and Android is a proximity app using Bluetooth is intended to alert a person if they have been in close proximity to another person who has been diagnosed with the Covid-19 virus. Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.gov.health.covidsafehttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.gov.health.covidsafe. Apple App Store: … Read more
How to unpack and use Mac OSX fonts on Linux. This is easy.
To install Docker on Ubuntu, we need to be able to add a custom repository. This is the command required. 4.4 Mon Dec 23 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ sudo add-apt-repository \ "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \ $(lsb_release -cs) stable"4.4 Mon Dec 23 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ sudo add-apt-repository \ "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \ $(lsb_release -cs) stable" Then update … Read more
I am needing to install Emacs on my computer and I have decided to install from source. This is easy on Linux, I had to ensure I had the latest build of Emacs. Then I could compile the source code. Download the source here: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-26.3.tar.xz. Firstly, extract the source to a folder. 4.4 Wed Oct … Read more
I had problems installing .NET 3.51 on Windows 8.1, the downloaded installed kept saying that it could not access the Internet to download and install the files, which is retarded. So I put in the Windows DVD and used the command below in an Administrator Powershell session. PS C:\Windows\system32> Dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFx3 /All /Source:I:\sources\sxs … Read more
The brave web browser is a very secure alternative to Firefox and Chromium for the Linux platform. To install this browser on Ubuntu 18.04, use snap. 4.4 Wed Sep 25 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ sudo snap install brave Warning: /snap/bin was not found in your $PATH. If you’ve not restarted your session since you installed snapd, … Read more
Linux and Windows are continually in a state of competition, but the problem with Windows 10 is the update methods that create many and varied problems that should never even happen in the first place. The Linux and Macintosh operating systems do not have that many problems when upgrading. I have updated Macintosh OS to … Read more
I could not get the networking to work with Fedora 30. The kernel version is 5. This will not allow me to install the VMWare addons, the drivers will not compile. This is a problem. And every time I load the distribution I have to reset the desktop resolution. I will try it in KVM … Read more
Updating Arch Linux does not need to be hard. I am using Arch labs and it is easy to update and configure. To update package repositories on Arch Linux, use this command. pacman -Syupacman -Syu List all packages that are no longer required on the system. pacman -Qdtpacman -Qdt Download a package to your Arch … Read more
Compiling and Installing a 2.4 Kernel on Debian This is quite like the installation process for the 2.6 kernel. Just unpack the kernel sources to your home directory and cd to the directory and type make mrproper to make sure the source directory is clean. Then type make menuconfigmake menuconfig And follow the options to … Read more
I have just upgraded a Macbook to OSX Mojave. This was very painless, and did not take very long at all. Upgrading a Macintosh machine is much easier than upgrading Windows 10, with all of the hassles and file deletion issues involved in that process. After the installation process, I had a new login screen, … Read more
Installing the new VIM release from source is very easy. I have this running on Ubuntu 17.10 and it is great, the editor allows the user to open a terminal within the editor. Make a new folder to download the files into. Go into the directory, and then run this command to download the sources. … Read more
How to install the GCC compiler for Macintosh programming on a Macintosh Air. This simple command will install the GCC compiler collection and the make command on a Macintosh. This enables programming console apps on a Macintosh machine. These instructions are for Macintosh OSX Sierra. May not be the same on an older Macintosh machine. … Read more
Playing Russian Overkill is a lot of fun, and this can be done on Linux as well as Windows. We need to add another repository to Ubuntu to manage this. Add the required package repository. I am assuming you already have a copy of classic Doom and the Russian Overkill mod. sudo apt-add-repository ‘deb http://debian.drdteam.org/ … Read more