Advanced VirtualBox Shared Folder

Hi all. I’m hoping that you are well in this strange time. In this post I will show you different way of setting up Shared Folder between your virtual machine and host PC when using Oracle’s VirtualBox. I will show you how to setup Samba Shared folder between virtual box and host PC. For Advanced … Read more

LoL on Pop OS

Hi all. You switched to Pop OS! and now what? You can start developing code and start your work very easily, but what after hard work? How can you relax and play some games? How hard is to play LoL on Pop OS!. Check out my other post on how to customize Pop OS! on … Read more

LaTeX in Linux

Introduction What is Latex? LaTeX – A document preparation system LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system; it includes features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation. LaTeX is the de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents. LaTeX is available as free software. Definition from latex-project.org That is OK, but … Read more

Customize Pop OS! 20.04

Hi all, I spend some time to customize Pop OS! 20.04. and to document that process, so let me show you what I was able to do. Install Gnome Tweaks Tool Pop OS! 20.04 usage Gnome desktop environment, so if we want to do some customization this is a good place to start. Simply type … Read more

Things to do after installing Pop OS! 20.04

Hi all. You installed Pop OS! 20.04 (https://bln364.com/dual-boot-pop-os-and-windows-10/), and you are now wondering what to do next. I have prepared a list of things to do after the clean install of Pop OS! 20.04 as my customization process. Without further ado, let’s start with things to do after installing Pop OS! 20.04. Things to do … Read more

GIT GUI for Linux

Hi all. I want to share with you my search for the best Git GUI for Linux. My journey with git started 5 years ago at my first job, when I learned how to use git form bash. In rest of my developer career, I started using Windows and LabVIEW and naturally I started using … Read more

Start with FreeNAS in 2020

Introduction Hi all. Do you have desire to create Windows Share Folder on separate machine or on virtual machine? Can we use FreeNAS in 2020 for this task? Lets check by looking at couple of definitions from https://www.freenas.org/ Also, in the future blog post I would like to try FreeNAS alternative called Unraid. Is this … Read more

Dual Boot Pop!_OS and Windows 10

Hi all. So you tried Pop OS! 20.04 (https://bln364.com/how-to-try-system-76s-pop-os-on-windows-10-laptop/) and now you want to install Pop OS! alongside Windows 10. This will show you how to dual boot Pop OS! and Windows 10. Short overview: And I must add. Please be careful with this process. Formatting the wrong partition can cause you to lose all … Read more

How to start with LabVIEW 2020 Community Edition

Hi all. In 2020 National Instrument released, for the first time Community Edition of there flag ship product LabVIEW. Above there is a link to YouTube Video where is shown how to start with LabVIEW 2020 community edition if you are completely new in LabVIEW. As picture can sometimes say more then a thousand words, … Read more

How to connect to AWS EC2 Instance from Windows 10 and Linux

Hi all. Do you want to start with web development and/or developing Rest Full database? Maybe the AWS (Amazon Web Service) is good way to start. There are a lot of Amazon Services, but for this blog we are focusing on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud or Amazon EC2 and how to connect to AWS EC2. … Read more

How to Play Old Games on Android in 2020

Hi all. Couple a weeks age I created a how to video and blog post on how to play old games on Linux in 2020 (https://bln364.com/how-to-play-old-games-on-linux-in-2020/). This was very fun experiment for me especially because I could play my favorite old game, Aladdin on Linux. But, not everyone is comfortable enough with Linux, and on … Read more

How to Play Old Games on Linux in 2020

Hi all. In this strange time and with a lot of extra time I was thinking how old games were fun to play. When I say old, I mean old, old. Games played on DoS. So I wondered, is there an easy way to play these games on today’s hardware. Answer is yes, and in … Read more

How to Develop C++ projects in Manjaro

How to Develop C++ projects in Manjaro? In this post I will document my process and I’m asking you, do you have some better solution?  For C++ development we need two things:  C++ compiler  Some kind of development IDE  Compile and Run C++ project in Command line In theory, we only need C++ compiler and … Read more

How to Create Virtual Machines in 2020

Motivation Hi all. I am currently preparing another project that is based around communication via IPv6 protocol on LabVIEW. For that to be possible I needed to setup two VM machines. On a VM machine I need to install Windows 10 and connect together internally. So, I decided that this can be create topic on … Read more

How to make custom Wallpaper with Inkscape in 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUTKZqrUyoHi all, I would like to describe my process for creating custom wallpaper with Inkscape in 2020. But why? Why custom wallpaper when you have countless others online? The main reason is my home PC setup has two monitors. One is oriented in horizontal orientation and second is in vertical, shown on the image below. I … Read more

Clone HDD to smaller SSD on Linux

Starting point How to speed up your old Windows laptop? Simply, install Linux and upgrade hard drive to solid state drive. First, let’s try Linux. My choice of Linux flavor is Ubuntu 18.04. It is currently installed on old HP Compaq nc6400 (https://support.hp.com/rs-en/document/c00685510). After installation of Ubuntu on laptops larger HDD (Toshiba 1TB), we can … Read more

Using Raspberry Pi as RDP Client

Why do you need RDP client with Raspberry PI? Do you work in a company with a policy of owning desktop PC instead of laptops? Is there also conference room? How can you present or show something from your local desktop PC in the comfort of your conference room? What are your options? You can opt … Read more