By: Asmita It has been over a decade since digital payment systems were first introduced in Nepal, and people were slowly but surely shifting towards digitization. When the spread of Covid-19 turned the world upside down in 2020, Nepalese also quickly adjusted to the new, socially distanced world. Today, mobile payment apps are rapidly becoming the preferred option for consumers all over Nepal to pay for goods and services. However, with anything good that arrives, there is always a piece of bad that follows; as is the case for digitalization. The popularity of digital payments has also increased the risk of unaware users being targeted by fraudsters and scam artists who abuse these apps for their illegal schemes. But, we must not panic,...
Install Debian 9 with RAID 1
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Install Debian 9 with RAID 1
Part I
Part II
References:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SoftwareRaidRoot
https://www.howtoforge.com/replacing_hard_disks_in_a_raid1_array...
Install wildcard certificates for apache
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Let's encrypt now provides wildcard certificates to be deployed for servers groups and even for the servers at intranet.
I am using CEntOS here.
Install apache and mod_ssl plugin then install certbot package.
Certbot package is available in Epel repository
Enable the EPEL repository
yum install epel-release
Install Certbot with dns plugin
yum install certbot python2-certbot-dns-rfc2136
Start the process with the following command
certbot certonly \--manual \--preferred-challenges=dns \--email...
Install vmware tools in linux virtual machine
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Installing vmware tools in Redhat (CentOS)
If you have installed Redhat or CentOS in your virtual machine with the minimal software installing vmware tools require installing ifconfig command
ifconfig command can be found in net-tools package to install it run
# yum install net-tools
Load the vmware-tools CD in the virtual machine, unpack the vmware-distribution folder to the desktop or /tmp folder and then run ./installer.pl file inside the vmware-tools-distrib folder
# mkdir /mnt/cdrom
# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
# cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-{version}.tar.gz /tmp/
e.g.
# cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-9.4.11-2400950.tar.gz /tmp/
# cd /tmp
# tar -zxvf VMwareTools-9.4.11-2400950.tar.gz
# cd vmware-tools-distrib
# ./vmware-install.pl
if...
Slack alternative
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Slack alternative for team chat
Many alternatives on the subject are on mainstream. Among them I have tried Openfire chatserver and Rocket chat. Since our org do not allow us to leave our intranet and slack does not have the in house installation, the above two are the perfect solution, though there are many chatserver that allow the inhouse installation I am not taking considerations that I haven't tested. Though I was tempted to test others like mattermost, discord and others like I am sticking to the formers till they fulfil the clients request.
Openfire and Rocket chat are both open source and free. Openfire can be installed in Windows and Linux both. I haven't tried Rocket chat in Windows Server. Both the installation are straight...
Bulk Unicode converter for Word
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Unicode converter for Word
Nepali non-Unicode fonts to Unicode font converter for formatted documents like word, excel, powerpoint
Many online webpages using javascript are available that convert
non-unicode fonts to Unicode fonts for unformatted text that is
copy-pasted into the page. My own online version is available at
Preeti to Unicode
Fontasy to Unicode
But
when it comes to the formatted documents like in word and excel and
with mixed fonts, it becomes difficult to convert using these...
New unicode font style compared
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New unicode font style compared
Listed Nepali unicode font styles are compared
Mangal font
Kanjirowa font
Kalimati font
Samanata font
Arial Unicode
Thyaka Robison
Madan2
Janaki
Akchyar Unicode
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