Recently, I have started to read the book “The Linux Programming Interface”. In chapter 4 of the book, the reader is given the exercise to create the tee command. For those of you who is not familiar what a tee command does, it is a simple command that reads the Read more…
In order to improve the security at home, recently I have decided to install a web surveillance cameras. Most of the consumer grade cameras comes with a micro SD slot. While it is fine to write to the SD card, depending on the storage size of the SD card, one Read more…
After spending 80 hours of intellectual ride with the book, I have finally reached the destination which is the last page of the content. The book, Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell, is a very well written introduction to economics that does not involve any complex mathematical equations or technical jargons. Read more…
Recently, a colleague was showing me some output from a program that is executed in linux environment. So he asked me why he is not able to remove these output from the console even though he has used the linux redirect for the program output on the terminal. The command Read more…
In this guide, I will show you how to set up postgresql 10 database on FreeNAS using iocage. Before we begin, create a dataset under FreeNAS, this is where our postgresql data will reside. If you are not sure how to do that, please google it online. Launch the shell Read more…
I have finally completed reading all 4 books from the Market Wizards series authored by Jack Schwager. Ever since my graduation in 2016, I have been buying and reading many books on investment, finance and economics to broaden my understanding on trading and investments – I will share more on Read more…
Recently, I was tasked to speed up an algorithm using the CUDA framework. And I ran into issues getting the CUDA project to compile in the VS2017. After spending all the time searching all over the internet for the solutions/guides, I have decided to put up a guide myself so Read more…
This is a guide to help those who are trying is build a HTPC using VFD310, iMon Controller and Kodi. Personally, I am using an OrigenAE S10V HTPC case, which is out of production. This case came with an iMon pad controller which has a pretty bad quality. So later Read more…
Installing pyenv is rather straight forward, one simply has to run the command below curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pyenv/pyenv-installer/master/bin/pyenv-installer | bash And when you tried to install a python version, you will probably see the follow error or something similar. $ pyenv install 3.6.3 Downloading Python-3.6.3.tar.xz… -> https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.6.3/Python-3.6.3.tar.xz Installing Python-3.6.3… BUILD FAILED Read more…
It has been a while since my last blog entry, I have just spent a few hours migrating some web applications from my old server to the new server. While migrating the web applications, I realized that among all the applications, gitlab is the only one which is still using Read more…