The Second Cohort of #BUILDFORSDG Challenge 2020 is out!

By | July 24, 2020
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The #BuildforSDG Challenge 2020 is a partnership between Facebook Developer Circles and Andela where African developer are given the opportunity to;  Innovate the next big technology solution/product out of Africa Access an entrepreneurial starter kit to launch your tech solution Further advance your knowledge and skills developer knowledge and learn something new. Access mentors/facilitators who would show you the ropes to building a functional tech solution/product.… Read More »

THE CHINESE DOMAIN SCAM AND OUR REACTIONS AT FOSSNAIJA.

By | June 30, 2020
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Last month (May 8 to be precise) we got a very interesting email from one Albert Liu ([email protected]) which was in retrospect with the intention to scare us into purchasing unwanted domains from him and possibly other scam trick he’s got up in his sleeves. Claiming to be a staff of the Chinese domain name registration, he wrote that a company, Hongbo Ltd,… Read More »

How To Install WPS Office On Linux

By | May 30, 2020
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WPS Office is an acronym for Writer, Presentation and Spreadsheet. It is a cross-platform freemium office application that is developed by KINGSOFT. It is light-weight and feature-rich. The Linux version of the software is being developed by a volunteer community. There are free, premium and professional versions available.  With the free version, you’d do OK. WPS Office includes the… Read More »

How To Install Zoom Video Conferencing App On Linux

By | April 30, 2020
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HOW TO INSTALL ZOOM ON LINUX

With the recent COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the world, leading to lockdown in a different part of the world, the importance of staying in touch has been brought to the fore. This could be with family members, friends, employees, civil servant and presidents. Communication is now essential in keeping up to date and/or ensuring that essential… Read More »

How to Install Terminator, a Linux Terminal Emulator on Steroids

By | March 31, 2020
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There is a default terminal emulator (or terminal for short) that come pre-installed in every Linux distro. The terminal is the command-line interface through which you can type in commands and carry out other text manipulation on Linux. This is so irrespective of the fact that many modern Linux distros support very beautiful and intuitive graphical user interface for every day Linux use cases.… Read More »

HOW TO INSTALL COMPOSER ON LINUX

By | February 29, 2020
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Composer is a command-line package manager for the PHP programming language. Composer helps in managing dependencies and libraries that are required when developing PHP applications. So if you’re developing a PHP app and you need some third-party libraries you can declare them in the “composer.json” file; while composer will go ahead to install the libraries… Read More »

Microsoft Wants to Stop Supporting Windows 7 Switch to Linux Now

By | January 13, 2020
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Microsoft has announced that it would be ending it extended support for its Windows 7 operating system (OS) on January 14, 2020. and recently that paid windows 7 extended security updates (ESU) would be provided through January 2023. according to Microsoft, the ESU would be sold per device basis. What that means is that if… Read More »

How to Merge Multiple Disk Drive Partitions into One in Linux

By | November 11, 2019
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This tutorial shows you how you can create a single partition on a disk drive with many smaller fragmented partitions easily. There are many situations that can lead to the population of a disk drive by different fragmented partitions. For instance, you might want to repurpose a USB thumb drive that has been used to… Read More »