One often has a need to see the list of all Linux Packages Installed on your system. If your OS is Ubuntu flavored then you can use the command The above command will spit out details of all the different packages installed on your system. If you want to just see the names (listing) of all the packages without the details use the command.. If…
How Secure Is Your Password
How secure is your password? We’ve all heard and seen the recommended best practices about setting your password, in particular rules to the effect of: A password should be 16 (at least 12) characters or more A password should include a combination of letters, numbers, and characters A password should have at least 1 uppercase character, 1 number and 1 special character A password shouldn’t…
The Feynman Technique – to learning
We here at AssetBytes are fans of Richard Feynman noted theoretical physicist. Besides being a great scientist, Feynman was a pedagogue who believed that learning should be an active process of “trial and error, discovery, free inquiry”. His teaching philosophy rejected rote memorization and instead encompassed the belief that if you couldn’t explain something clearly and simply it was because you didn’t understand it well…
How to check if a Port is open
If you are hosting an application or a webpage one of the most important things you need to consider is security and external/public access to your application over the internet. Nowadays almost all machines, whether its cloud or virtual servers, client desktops or personal laptops, all have firewalls enabled by default. Depending on whether you have a windows firewall or a mac firewall or a…
zsh and Oh My Zsh
If you do any kind of development on Linux or a Mac you know how important and useful the terminal (Unix) shell is. If you are new to it all here’s a quick refresher on Terminals/Shells/Command Lines. The standard and most popular Unix shell for years was the Bash shell. Over time the Z shell (zsh) which is an extended Bourne shell with enhanced features…
Java Development on a Mac
Java Development on a Mac – DigitalBytes from AssetBytesSetting up or Updating Java on a Mac machine is a lot different than installing Java on a Windows machine. Here’s the steps one of our developers had to follow to set up their Java development environment on a Mac…. So you have a new Mac (or an old Mac) and you want to do some Java…
Covid Response
Is your business prepared to re-open in this age of Covid? Do you need help with Covid Technology? Contact Us with your technology needs or questions and we will be happy to offer our help. We can provide guidance and services to help you get back to your business and we even help you grow your business in a virtual/online environment.
Digital Security & Covid-19
Two months into the Covid-19 lockdowns across the world, everyone is familiar with the steep increase in online traffic and usage, from companies both big and small to the average home user. So it’s no surprise hackers/malicious groups have stepped up their online attacks too. One particularly nasty attack that has been spreading rapidly recently is the ‘Netwalker or Mailto Ransonware’ attack. The attack was…
Squirrel SQLClient
Here at Assetbytes we use both Windows and MacOS systems to do our development. We’ve worked with various SQL Clients over the years but settled on an old faithful the open source universal SQuirrel SQL client. This is a Java based client so it works the same on Windows, Linux and MacOS platforms. The one issue we had with using this client on MacOS was…
NFL NextGen Stats
Ever wonder about the technology behind the NFL’s Next Gen Stats? RFID specialist Zebra Technologies Corp. (Nasdaq: ZBRA) attaches RFID tags in player equipment and footballs, transmitting real-time location data to receivers positioned around the stadium that gather metrics such as player speed, distance traveled, orientation and acceleration. The company will be holding a press conference that will be live streamed at Facebook.com/ZebraTechnologiesGlobal on Jan. 29, 3:30 to 4 p.m.…