Homebrew Package Manager and OSX is a package manager. Package administrations offers the great benefits and provide success of UNIX and Unix-like OS. Basically, we have talked about Homebrew Package Manager and how to install Homebrew in quite older guide. In short, we can use Homebrew to install either directly or build, compile software from source code - we gave the excellent video before on … [Read more...]
3 Reasons to Select PaaS
3 Reasons to Select PaaS points out the shortcomings which were prominent in initial days of PaaS model, has gone away making PaaS more consumable. PaaS came with offers but no standards - initially the big providers presented strategies for Platform as a Service - but the model for user had risks and virtually the usage was limited to the developers only. 3 Reasons to Select PaaS : The … [Read more...]
Installing WordPress on Lighttpd Web Server
Installing WordPress on Lighttpd Web Server is quite easy - the major difference is the presence of pdo directory and db.php file in the root of FTP folder. We already talked about lighttpd Web Server Software and it is assumable that, why we want to go for installing WordPress on lighttpd Web Server Software - it is light. We are assuming that, you are not an novice user, you already know how to … [Read more...]
Using make Command on OSX to Compile Application
Using make Command on OSX to compile application is quite useful as many OS X applications' source code is distributed as Free Softwares while the dmg are paid. Definitely, this is not only the reason; there are much more reasons why we will use make command or rather compile fro source code. textmate, for example on Links CLI Based Browser With Graphics for OS X guide, we shown that without … [Read more...]
lighttpd Web Server Software Details
lighttpd is a free Web Server Software distributed under the BSD license, used to power the high performance environments. lighttpd web software powers many known websites. We wrote about Apache HTTP Server, nginx HTTP Server before; this lighttpd is more light. It is faster, has a smaller memory footprint than other HTTP servers as well as intelligent at CPU load management. The original lighttpd … [Read more...]
Cloud Computing : The now Non-Existent Border Between Free and Profit
Cloud Computing is entering through open source and free softwares. In recent years, Open Nebula, Open Stack, Eucalyptus have offered several alternatives. First the services of Amazon's cloud computing opened the way for a boom in the computer industry for powerful and flexible service only available at that time on the Internet. Now the same technology is entering the market of the major … [Read more...]
Mac Pro : Technical Details of Apple’s Workstation
Mac Pro is Apple's most powerful and highly configurable Intel Xeon“based workstation computer came as successor of Apple Power Mac G5 series. Due to highly configurable nature, pricing of Mac Pro falls within a range from $2,499.00 to $3,799.00 (at the time of writing) and you can configure up to the price tag $14,366.00 (extra softwares are not calculated). Previously we wrote what to choose … [Read more...]
Links CLI Based Browser With Graphics : OS X Build
Links command line interface based browser with Graphics can only be enabled on OS X with make function. During the build process, one need to enable graphics. We wrote about Command Line Web Browsing in previous article with all the softwares we found are in usage. We mentioned in that article, that Graphical features of Links command line interface based browser demands manual installation and … [Read more...]
Multiple Server Swift Installation : Outline
Multiple Server OpenStack Swift Installation appears a bit confusing to the new users who wants to create an cloud instance for storage. It is definitely not possible for all the Universities to arrange multiple bigger instances of own bare metal, possibly testing the softwares on own Servers becomes prohibitive for cost. The terminology Cloud itself is too much business centric. We have to … [Read more...]
How to Organize Cloud Infrastructure : Lesson 2
Every company nowadays, has essentially two basic needs that can be met through IT and the Internet - the accessibility by and speeding up the works. This article is named How to Organize Cloud Infrastructure Lesson 2 as the first and foremost important step to plan and get the maximum ROI has been discussed before. To satisfy the customers, to keep the activities official and organized; the … [Read more...]
Unified Centralized Management of Data with Openfiler
Unified centralized management of data is possible with Openfiler which provides an web based interface for network attached storage and block storage. Openfiler is a free software and licensed under GNU GPL. Previously we have discussed, configured cloud servers to deal with web services, databases, mail and collaboration softwares, in this article we are going describe a system that adds a … [Read more...]