linux

Securing Raspberry Pi

27 Sep 2018, 12:08pm TZ +05:30
linux, Raspberry Pi
Security

Secure Raspberry Pi

Using Raspberry Pi for your IoT experiments - a given. Like the white hair on my head.
Many don’t realize the real threat it poses these days to security. There have been many reports of IoT devices being hijacked. And then used for malicious purposes. Like peeping into your drawer. Even worst looking into your code. I don’t want people to know how many cockroaches and worms lie hidden in my old code. ;-)

Well, instead of loosing your night’s sleep read this.

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WiFi Problem with Lenovo Laptop

16 Mar 2018, 12:00am TZ +00:00
linux
Software

This problem specifically occurs with Lenovo laptops and more pounced in *Ubuntu 17.x" onwards.

The problem happens when the laptop goes to any type of standby , sleep or hybrid-sleep.

It causes the WiFi the not function again after wakeup.

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Security Hardening : SSH on Ubuntu

05 Nov 2017, 12:00am TZ +00:00
linux
Security

Some of us like myself do our primary hardware development on Windows PCs. However when it come to writing a Go server or a Rust program we head over to Linux PC. Most of the development work on a Linux PC is via the terminal. Hence having a good remote terminal is essential. As you can’t always have a VM instances running your Linux. It become difficult over time. The best is to have either a headless PC or an old Laptop that would act as our Linux box. ...

Upgrading Wine for Ubuntu Linux

12 Oct 2017, 12:00am TZ +00:00
linux
Software

Upgrading from older 1.8 Version of Wine to Latest 2.0.x Versions in Ubuntu 17.04, 16.10, 16.04.3 for the new GNOME front.

Also fixing the older DASH based shortcuts.

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