Autonomic Computing is an initiative to provide computers with the tools they need to self-manage without human intervention. The idea was initially launched by IBM in the year 2001, now it has been taken over by many other companies, including HP and Microsoft. The initiative also involved academia, with the establishment of the International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing. The … [Read more...]
PHP 7.4 and WordPress .htaccess
WordPress setup running on the top of Apache uses the .htaccess file. .htaccess on Apache server setup remains on FTP and works like the other Apache settings files. It mostly controls common matters like the URLs and access to a directory. .htaccess files degrade the performance of the Apache backend server. As the number of directories on a site gets larger, it impacts the crawl. Apache … [Read more...]
Detect Smartwatch With ESP32 on IBM Watson IoT Widget
In our previous guide, we have shown that we can trigger ESP32 (with Arduino IDE) to send message to IBM Watson IoT in Presence of a Particular Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch. That process involves BLE and WiFi. In our one series of articles on Samsung Smartwatch as Proximity Switch, we triggered a local event, such as control of a LED. In our other series of articles, we used the IBM Watson IoT … [Read more...]
How to Take the Advantages of Cloud Computing
On-premise installation or cloud? Here you can read how your company can realize the advantages of cloud computing and still keep all data, information and workloads under your control, as with an on-premises installation. Companies will no longer have a competitive advantage in the future if they invest in information technology. IT will simply be an infrastructure technology from the socket - … [Read more...]
How To Start Dropshipping to Earn Money
Making some millions from dropshipping need effort, knowledge, some investment of money and time. Dropshipping is the most suitable model to earn by the peoples who are interested to learn to make money online. Many still today are not aware of what is dropshipping, how dropshipping works, or what are required to start a dropshipping business. This article is mostly for those who are not used with … [Read more...]
How To Install PHP 7.4 on Ubuntu Server
PHP 7.4 is a new minor version of PHP with some breaking changes. While installing PHP 7.4 for my new website abhishekghosh.com I noticed that some packages do need careful installation. Overall our main guide on how to install PHP 7.2 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server should work fine for setup of a LAMP server for installation of PHP-MySQL web software like WordPress. The new features are written on … [Read more...]
How COVID-19 is Driving Agile Collaboration
Fast action is the order of the day for many corporate executives in the current corona virus crisis. Now many companies - sometimes in a merciless form - are held up to the mirror regarding their own digitization efforts in recent years. Some are even forced to implement measures in a short time that they had previously put off for various reasons. These are now often part of the current crisis … [Read more...]
How to Use pgrep and pkill Command
On unix-like OS, the pkill command sends a signal to the processes while the pgrep command searches for processes currently running on the system. Originally, the pkill was written for using with the Solaris 7 (1998). kill, killall, pkill, pgrep can be used on all the GNU/Linux OS, MacOS X and Linux shell on Windows 10. The kill signals HUP (1) reloads a process, KILL (9) kills a process, TERM … [Read more...]
How to Install Gradle on Debian
Gradle is a build tool primarily used for Java projects. Gradle combines the features of Ant and Maven. Gradle uses Groovy, which is a dynamic, object-oriented programming language for the Java platform to define the project and build scripts. Java is one of the most popular programming languages used to build different kinds of applications and systems. Applications developed in Java are scalable … [Read more...]
What is Cloud Robotics?
Various cloud technologies such as cloud server, cloud storage are used in the field of cloud robotics is a field of robotics to utilize benefits of shared service infrastructure. Thus, the robots get the benefit from powerful computing, storage, and communication capabilities of cloud computing, which can process and share information from the agents (other machines, smart objects, humans,etc.). … [Read more...]
What Makes Samsung Smartphones So Popular?
In one sentence - it is the failure of original Nokia which makes Samsung smartphones so popular. Since the year 2001, both Samsung and Nokia had a hardworking team to integrate camera and add PDA functions to the cellular phones. Samsung was always superior to Nokia in the designing aspect. Indeed, Samsung brought the high-resolution colour display and camera quite earlier than … [Read more...]