My favorite startup in the fast emerging Internet of Things market, London-based Pachube, has been acquired by Woburn, Massachusetts-based LogMeIn. The deal is worth "approximately $15 million in cash," some of it dependent on performance. LogMeIn provides provides cloud-based remote access solutions, such as the remote PC control app Ignition that we wrote about earlier … Continue reading The Pachube story
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How to install Guest OS Additions (Linux guestOS) in VirtualBox
1. Mount the Guest OS Additions image file (ISO). 2. Open up a terminal, go to /media, and see if the image has been mounted successfully. jayla@jayla-VirtualBox:/media/VBOXADDITIONS_4.3.10_93012$ 3. Run the relevant script sudo sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run 4. Guest OS Additions should be installed in folder /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-4.3.10 For more details, go to the official VirtualBox site https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html … Continue reading How to install Guest OS Additions (Linux guestOS) in VirtualBox
What is inside init.d directory?
The init.d directory contains a number of start/stop scripts for various services (Daemon) on your system. Everything from acpid to x11-common is controlled from this directory. If you look at the /etc directory you will find directories that are in the form rc#.d (Where # is a number reflects a specific initialization level - from … Continue reading What is inside init.d directory?
How to set up SSH on Raspberry Pi
SSH is a secure method of logging onto a remote computer. If your Pi is networked then this can be a handy way of operating it from another computer or just copying files to or from it. First you have to install the SSH service. This is done by this command: sudo apt-get install ssh … Continue reading How to set up SSH on Raspberry Pi
A more detailed tutorial on how to allow remote access
Setting up remote access to your local network is one of the coolest things you can do with your router, as it allows you to remotely view your screen, access files, control services like BitTorrent remotely, and so on. Basically, anything you can do at home can be made possible by just opening a few … Continue reading A more detailed tutorial on how to allow remote access
Allow Remote Desktop connections from outside your home network (Windows and Linux)
There are six steps you'll need to follow to set this up. Each one is explained in detail below. Allow remote connections to the computer you want to access. Make sure Remote Desktop is able to communicate through your firewall. Find the IP address of the computer on your home network that you want to … Continue reading Allow Remote Desktop connections from outside your home network (Windows and Linux)
How to install FLTK with MS Visual C++ 2010 Express
1. Go to http://fltk.org and download the latest release (zip file, such as "fltk-1.3.0-source.tar") 2. Copy it to C:/ and unzip the file. 3. Open Visual C++ 2010, go to C:\fltk-1.3.0\ide\VisualC2010, open "fltk.sln". 4. From the Build menu, choose build solution. When the process is completed, close Visual Studio. 5. From the main FLTK directory, … Continue reading How to install FLTK with MS Visual C++ 2010 Express
How do I make a Python script executable on Linux/Unix?
You need to do two things: the script file’s mode must be executable and the first line must begin with #! followed by the path of the Python interpreter. The first is done by executing “chmod +x scriptfile” or perhaps “chmod 755 scriptfile". $ chmod +x myscript.py The second can be done in a number … Continue reading How do I make a Python script executable on Linux/Unix?
How to install an init.d script in Ubuntu?
Reference link: http://askubuntu.com/questions/335242/how-to-install-an-init-d-script-in-ubuntu For example, to create a new script "vncserver" sudo editor /etc/init.d/vncserver Then enter the shell script (e.g., define start, stop, status, etc. check out one example inside that folder...). Afterwards, make sure that you make the script executable after creation. sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/vncserver Now insert the service into the start-up system … Continue reading How to install an init.d script in Ubuntu?
Short tutorial on how to use TightVNC to access to a Raspberry Pi remotely.
Here is a short tutorial on how to use TightVNCserver and viewer to access a Raspberry Pi remotely. 1. Set up TightVNCServer Install TightVNCServer and have it configured: root@raspberrypi: ~# apt-get install tightvncserver root@raspberrypi: ~# tightvncserver :1 After initializing for the first time, kill the server to do a couple of configurations which allow Tightvncserver … Continue reading Short tutorial on how to use TightVNC to access to a Raspberry Pi remotely.
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