Author: Babar Zahoor

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The future of blockchain — how will the distributed ledger technology change financial services?

The pervasive adoption of digital technology for financial transactions has spawned new markets within the financial services industry, and blockchain applications represent one of the more transformational technologies to emerge — one that has the potential to change how financial institutions manage their data, applications, transactions, and business processes.

What is GRSecurity

Grsecurity® is an extensive security enhancement to the Linux kernel that defends against a wide range of security threats through intelligent access control, memory corruption-based exploit prevention, and a host of other system hardening that generally require no configuration. It has been actively developed and maintained for the past 15 years. Commercial support for grsecurity…
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To OpenSource and Beyond!

This is a first in a series of posts based on my read of the potential of opensource. The first part gives an intro to what I mean by opensource projects, and why it has become more than just free code!

Canonical Livepatch Service Apply critical kernel patches without rebooting.

Canonical Livepatch Service Apply critical kernel patches without rebooting

Linux Family reached 99.4 % as Super Computer Operating System — Top500.org

According to https://www.top500.org/  in June 2016 Linux family has gained the usage up to 99.4 % as Operating System for Super Computing platform or HPCC.

How to configure ICINGA2 Monitoring server on CentOS / RHEL 7

Before we start to configure ICINGA2 we need to ensure that LAMP is installed on our machine. SELINUX Setup view /etc/selinux/config sed -i ‘s/SELINUX=enforcing/SELINUX=permissive/g’ /etc/selinux/config reboot

How to enable and use EPEL Repo in RedHat / CentOS Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 / CentOS 7 rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm yum update

Setting up custom domain in OSClass

Please go to your server root and open config.php to setup custom domain cd /var/www/html/

Debian mourns the passing of Ian Murdock — very sad news

With a heavy heart Debian  mourns the passing of Ian Murdock, stalwart proponent of Free Open Source Software, Father, Son, and the ‘ian’ in Debian.

How to install FFmpeg, FLVTool2 and MP4Box on Ubuntu 14.04

  root@www:~# sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media root@www:~# sudo apt-get update root@www:~# sudo apt-get install ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg root@www:~# which ffmpeg /usr/bin/ffmpeg root@www:~#