Roll Your Own Metatrader VPS
If you are a serious forex trader then sooner or later you would give serious consideration to running your trading platform on a Virtual Private Server (VPS), which is essentially a computer hosted in a service provider’s data center. This…
IBM 3270 Screen Scraping And Automation
In the late 1980s, when IBM PC had proliferated while I was still supporting IBM mainframe, I wrote a PC tool that sent commands to the mainframe and received responses back via the PC 3270 terminal emulator. This tool helped to…
Ubuntu Cloud Desktop with X2Go
This guide is using X2Go as an alternative to VNC (or noVNC) for accessing remote Ubuntu Desktop as described in the previous article. Similar to VNC, X2Go is an open-source remote desktop software that enables access to a Linux graphical…
Ubuntu Cloud Desktop: Adding GUI to Your Cloud Server Instance
When you are going to install Ubuntu on a local machine, there are always two versions to choose: desktop or server. Whereas if you want to deploy Ubuntu on the cloud, most cloud service providers only provide server version. This makes…