Going Against the Tide of the Apps
This article by a veteran of the computing world is an interesting account of his experiences with computers, right from punch cards to mobiles …
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Exploring Big Data on a Desktop: Elasticsearch on OpenStack
This column explores the use of the powerful, open source, distributed search tool, Elasticsearch, which can enable the retrieval of data through a simple …
Using Gestures with Touchscreens on KDE5
Using the touchscreen on the netbook can be disappointing, while gestures also fail to please. In this article, the author recalls a personal of …
Easy to Use Video Editors
You can make your old and new videos more interesting and meaningful by editing them with either of these two free and easy-to-use video …
Exploring Software: A Secure UEFI Boot Experience
In this article, the author narrates his experiences with the UEFI boot when installing Fedora and Ubuntu on a Windows 8 UEFI secured netbook. …
Exploring Big Data on a Desktop: Spark and HBase (May 2015)
The last issue of OSFY carried the column Exploring Big Data, which took a look at Apache Spark. This article explores HBase, the Hadoop …
Spark: Exploring Big Data on a Desktop
Here’s an introduction to Apache Spark, a very fast tool for large scale data processing. Spark is easy to use, and runs on Hadoop …
Exploring Big Data on a Desktop, with Hadoop, Elasticsearch and Pig
In continuation of earlier articles, the author goes further into the subject to discuss Elasticsearch and Pig, and explain how they can be used …
Exploring Big Data on a Desktop: Archiving and Retrieving Emails using HBase and Phoenix
In this column, the author discusses how large volumes of mail can be archived and retrieved using Big Data tools, HBase and Phoenix. One …
Automate the Cropping of Photos from Scanned Album Pages
This month, we switch to a new track. Lets explore how Imagemagick kills the drudgery in extracting photographs from scanned pages by automating the …
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