Signal is an open source messaging application developed by Open Whisper Systems. It made it debut and mark as a mobile application, and a desktop application that requires your browser to work. With the release of standalone Signal Desktop today, it is n ...
Node.js ia a server-side, JavaScript run-time environment, while npm is a Node.js package manager. In this short tutorial, you'll learn how to install the long-term support (LTS) version of Node.js from a secure and reliable source on Ubuntu 17.04 and Lin ...
Go, or Golang, is an open source programming language from Google. Released in late-2009, it has since become a very popular programming language. Docker and many of its tools are written in Go, as are many new Web applications. Unlike Python, it doesn ...
I've never been into heavy-duty graphics processing units (GPUs), but I got bit by the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency bug so I had to buy one to build a trial cryptocurrency mining rig. The one I bought is an MSI AERO ITX GeForce GTX 1070 for about $400 USD. ...
In the course of writing this article, I had to put the VirtualBox guest I used in suspend mode, then tried to wake it from that mode to see if it would work. Well, putting it in suspend mode was easy. Waking it was a different matter because the usual ke ...
One of the new features that shipped with Ubuntu 17.04 is support for a Swap file. So instead of the traditional Swap partition, a new installation of Ubuntu 17.04 will be configured with a Swap file, just as in a Microsoft Windows operating system. If ...
Visual Studio Code is a developer-friendly code editor from Microsoft. Yes, the same Microsoft that I'm not really a big fan of. The editor is supposed to be really nice, with built-in support for Git, JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js. Plus it's open so ...
If you're using a computer with Ubuntu 16.10 Desktop installed, chances are that you've already been prompted to upgrade to the latest version, which is Ubuntu 17.04 Desktop. It's a simple and painless process that takes just a few hours. This post sh ...
If you've downloaded and installed the latest Ubuntu 17.04, one of the new features you probably didn't notice is that the system was installed without a dedicated swap partition. That's because a new installation of Ubuntu 17.04 uses a swap file, ins ...
Ansible is an open source, SSH-based configuration management, automation and deployment tool from Red Hat (via acquisition). It's in the same market as Chef and Salt, but because it relies on SSH, something that's already installed on your servers, it's ...
