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Node.js is a popular tool for Javascript applications and frameworks, for both frontend and backend application development. Front-end frameworks such as Svelte, testing frameworks such as Cypress and backend tools like Express will require Node.js. The challenge is that often the tools installed will need a different version of Node.js. The recommended method for managing these different versions is…
ZSH is a great looking shell that integrates with Git, Docker and other tools using plugins. Installing ZSH in Ubuntu or Linux Mint Install ZSH by running the following in your terminal sudo apt updatesudo apt install zsh Check ZSH by running zsh –version and checking that a version is shown. Installing ZSH on Mac Install Homebrew, then install…
With each revision of hardware, Apple continually makes this more difficult for those that have to interact with Apple fans. One of the most annoying is the HEIC format for photos. Even Apple’s own Photos app in iCloud won’t allow HEIC photo uploads, so to make any of these photo useful the HEIC files need to be converted to…
The Ubuntu Settings app is very light on when looking at the power button and lid actions, excluding most of the options a Windows user has to change the customise button/lid actions between AC Power and battery power operation. Fortunately there is an easy command line tool that allows these settings to be changes easily within the Gnome environment,…
Linux Mint provides a little tool called Web Apps. This tool allows a web site to be sandboxed into a separate window, making a website look like an app. This can be handy for a site like Google Messages for using phone SMSes on the PC, allowing this to be shown in its own distinct window rather than just…
To create a new user account in Ubuntu, replace new_user with the username you want to add in the follow commands. sudo -i An interactive root session avoids a lot of sudo prefixes. adduser new_user will create the user account, prompting you for user details and a password. usermod -a -G www-data new_user will add them to the www-data…
To track down Nodejs processes running on a server first run netstat -lt to list the ports that applications are listening on. This may show port 31044 is listening, for example. Next, find the processes that are listening on those ports with netstat -anp 2> /dev/null | grep :31044 This may return a process id like 7392/server.js – then…
To mount a Windows share using the command line in a Debian based distribution, first ensure that cifs-utils is installed. If it isn’t, run sudo apt install cifs-utils To mount a share, run sudo mount -t cifs -o username=userName,domain=DOMAIN //serverName/shareName /mnt/path replacing userName, DOMAIN, serverName and shareName and the mount path as appropriate. If the Windows workstation/server is not…
Initial WSL, Ubuntu, Apache, PHP and MySQL installation Windows Subsystem for Linux allows a development environment to be set up locally without the need for virtual machine hosts. First, install the WSL feature. Click Start, type ‘Windows features’ and click the Turn Windows Features On or Off item. Tick the Windows Subsystem for Linux option and click OK. The feature will be install, then…
Disposing of a PC, selling it on or giving it away leaves a security risk if the drive isn’t wiped of old data. Often this can be done easily with an application like MiniTool Partition Wizard for Windows, easicially if you are able to plug the drive into another PC, or are just dealing with an external drive. There…
Install and Manage Node.js with NVM
Node.js is a popular tool for Javascript…
ZSH – making shells fun
ZSH is a great looking shell that…