When it comes to two of the most talked about technologies in present times, Big Data and Internet of Things (IoT) are perhaps right at the helm. And over the last few years, Big Data has made progress in numerous domains. And although Internet of Things happens to be different, it is massively linked to Big Data.What is Big Data?Big Data is essentially a large amount of data that is in complex form. Specifically, it also refers to the use of predictive analysis and methods that allows extraction of valuable information from such data. This allows better decision making, reduction ... Read More

Isn’t it great to receive an advance notification to pack your umbrella, as it will rain tomorrow? Or else, remind yourself to silence your phone, when you get to work? If you will understand this, then that will reboot your life with a kick start. In short, we are talking about IFTTT (If This, Then That) technology. Confused? Well, it is a super tool that works as a coordinator for your apps and produce results based on your “if” logic. Let’s simplify it further.Suppose you want to auto update a status on Facebook as soon as you post a picture ... Read More

We are amazed at the revolution of technology which brought us by the awesome concept called- Internet of Things (IOT). With the help of intelligent technology, we are able to transform our ordinary home to smart home and control it just by giving the command from a device without physically operating them. There are smart watches that not only track all our physical activities but also alert us when the stats cross the limits.But, on the technology front, things are moving faster so as our needs to get more comfort with the help of technology. That is why now the ... Read More

In this article, we will learn how to configure Ansible – an automation configuration management system. Anisble is a configuration management system which can control a large number of client machines with an easy administration, which can be automated from a central location.Anisble communicates over SSH tunnels and it doesn’t need to install any software on the client machine and it retrieves the information from the remote ansible machines which issues the commands and copies the files.The Anisble configuration files mainly uses the YAML data formation as it can be due to expressive which has similarity of popular languages. The ... Read More

In this article, we will learn how to configure and install the ownCloud on Ubuntu 16.04. ownCloud is a file sharing server which permits the users to store the personal contents at a centralized storage or location just like Google Drive, Dropbox etc. The main difference is that ownCloud is a free and open source application can be configured in our own environment where we can control the data and secure them with limited access.PrerequisitesAs we need the below environment to setup and configure the ownCloud.Ubuntu 16.04 installed with initial setup and with a user with sudo permissionA LAMP (Linux, ... Read More

In this article, we will learn about how to move or change the location of the Nginx Web server documents folder. By default Nginx Web server default location is at /usr/share/nginx/html which is located on the default file system of the Linux. Generally, this is done, based on the website requirement or client requirements.PrerequisitesTo complete our setup we need the below requirements.Ubuntu 16.04 installed with a used with sudo permission on the machine.Nginx web server installedA mounted drive or the new document located for where we wanted to change the default document location.Copying the Document root files to the New ... Read More

How many times we are out of words and think just a simple caption or picture could say it all. Just when we were getting used to using these images instead of words we became greedier and now we wished for videos, that would suit perfectly to our situation.Well, the good news is recently Facebook has launched a new feature which allows users to upload a video as a comment.Previously this feature could only be enjoyed by 10 partners Anvato, Brightcove, Fullscreen, Grabyo, Kaltura, Now This, SocialFlow, SpreadFast, Vimond and Whipchip.Now, this feature can be enjoyed by Facebook’s iOS and ... Read More

Do you see your devices connected to your Wifi-network, but presently are you are facing problem recollecting your Wifi password, which you have previously used and connected all your devices with your Wifi network.The reason as to why you may have forgotten your Wifi password is, you would have clicked on the box, which states remember the password. This helps you escape the pain of entering your password every time when you login to your device. Days would have passed and you might not remember what password you have kept for your Wifi-Network. Another reason, as to why many people ... Read More

In this article, we will learn about how to fix the Dirty Cow Linux Vulnerability CentOS/Red Hat, Dirty Cow Linux Vulnerability was escalated on Oct 19, 2016, as it is a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux OS on kernel level was disclosed with the name Dirty COW as the Dirty Cow will create a condition that kernel handles COW (Copy-on-Write) which exists for a long time since as the most of the servers are at risk. Actually, this is called as CVE-2016-5195 on Redhat. This may affect the kernels which are shipped Red Hat Enterprises Linux 5, 6, 7.The ... Read More

In this article, we will learn how to generate and configure a self-signed SSL/TSL certificates for Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04. TSL is transport layer security with predecessor SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) which is used to protect the normal traffic in encrypted packets, where the traffic transfers from server to the client and will not be intercepted by the outside intruders. The certificate will also help the users to verify the identity of the sites they visited are correct.Self-signed certificates can be used if we don’t have any proper domain name associated with the site or the server instances.PrerequisitesIn accomplishing this ... Read More