My brother, a recent Mac convert told me how much he missed the Notepad++ on the Mac. We looked it up in the Wine compatibility list and found that it is fairly simple and stable to run it under wine. So, for those who miss having Notepad++ (or any one of those windows only applications in … Continue reading A good dose of Wine: Running Notepad++ and many other Windows only applications on the Mac and linux
Lost in Space : Dodging millions of Ads, Malware and Trackers
Internet is littered with trackers, ads, malwares and miners yearning to get their bite of the information pie. This is a step by step guide to setup Pi-Hole and blocking site and content across the whole network at your home. Unlike the browser based extensions that can only block the content you pull up in … Continue reading Lost in Space : Dodging millions of Ads, Malware and Trackers
Net Safety : 4. Protect Thy Computer
Previous Chapter There is no real excuse for not using freely available protection mechanisms out there. Sure, it may prevent you from going to the places that you are probably better of not going anyway but it would also save you a lot of trouble trying to recover from a bad state. While a lot … Continue reading Net Safety : 4. Protect Thy Computer
Net Safety : 3. Home Network
Previous Chapter The Wise old elf will tell you not to put all your eggs into one basket. Same goes for your Safety Nets weather it is internet security or your home security. We will discuss about some basic steps everyone should be taking when they setup the network and computers within. If you haven't … Continue reading Net Safety : 3. Home Network
Net Safety : 2. Troubles and Precautions
Previous Chapter Common troubles and precautions Adwares, Malwares, Botnets, Ransomware, Malmining/ CryptoJacking. Internet lives on Ads. While a lot of good sites rely on the revenue from Ads to give you the content for free, others wants to hijack your machine and turn it into their slaves and miners. Ads and impressions provide a lot … Continue reading Net Safety : 2. Troubles and Precautions
Net Safety : 1. The Basics
In this age, Internet is part of life and provides livelihood for many. For some, it is a way of life. On the flip side, Internet is littered with traps, scams, phishing, adwares, malware, crypto miners, botnets and ever since Jon Von Neumann published the 'Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata", curious minds has been trying to … Continue reading Net Safety : 1. The Basics
HOW TO: Get the Certificate Chain for a website
OpenSSL provides a very simple way to check/get the SSL / TLS certificate chain that a site/ webserver offers to the clients attempting to connect to it. This check is an effective technique to determine the SSL / TLS issues and at times, certain setups in my experience seems to be needing the chain installed … Continue reading HOW TO: Get the Certificate Chain for a website
HOW TO: Install Malayalam Keyboards for OS X High Sierra and Mojave with KeyMagic
The biggest thing I missed when I became a full-time Mac user was the ability to freely type Malayalam anywhere I wanted. Back in the younger days of language blogging on Internet, Unicode and the Varamozhi project was a huge boost for the craving minds. That project from Cibu (Cibu Johny) and the Anjaly Old … Continue reading HOW TO: Install Malayalam Keyboards for OS X High Sierra and Mojave with KeyMagic
