Author Archives: nigel borrington

Raspberry Pi 3 – A first look

Posted on March 7, 2016 by nigel borrington

7/3/2016, and this morning I received a Raspberry Pi model 3 in the post from New-IT. It has been unintentionally far to long since I posted here on my blog and receiving the new Raspberry Pi is a great time … Continue reading →

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Linux Software Repositories

Posted on November 30, 2015 by nigel borrington

Linux Software Repositories One of the key strengths of Linux as an Operating system is the large amount of software that is freely available for installation, much like the Android Apps Store but with a greater history. The main difference … Continue reading →

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Windows 10 on the Raspberry pi 2

Posted on October 6, 2015 by nigel borrington

Microsoft’s Windows 10 IOT core , has been available for the Raspberry pi 2 since around April to May 2015 and brings the Raspberry pi range of development boards into Microsoft “Internet of Things” arena, alongside other such development boards … Continue reading →

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Linux Configuration files and the command shell .

Posted on October 1, 2015 by nigel borrington

In one of my earlier posts I talked about Linux operating systems training and the Linux Professional Institute Study Guide (LIC-1). This study guide is aimed at helping with taking the following Linux Exams : LPIC-1 Linux Professional Institute Certification … Continue reading →

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Linux command shells

Posted on September 21, 2015 by nigel borrington

Unix and Linux command shells Within the Unix and Linux operating systems , a command shell is an operating system service/application that takes commands from a terminal emulator program or from a script source file and performs any given commands … Continue reading →

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Linux Professional Institute Study Guide (LIC-1)

Posted on September 16, 2015 by nigel borrington

LPIC-1 Linux Professional Institute Certification Study Guide: Exam 101-400 and Exam 102-400, 4th Edition Christine Bresnahan, Richard Blum ISBN: 978-1-119-02118-6 As we are now well into the month of September, the month that traditionally all students start or get back … Continue reading →

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Hexadecimal file editors and viewers

Posted on June 25, 2015 by nigel borrington

In my last post I talked a little about the numeric base systems of (Binary, Octal, Hex-decimal and Decimal) relating them to both computer machine level instruction code and application data. However these mathematical concepts are a little hard to … Continue reading →

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Numeric base systems of (Binary, Octal, Hex-decimal and Decimal)

Posted on June 23, 2015 by nigel borrington

Computer related numeric systems and their written representation In My last post I talked a little about the way computers see both their pre-defined commands in the form of machine code instructions that are grouped into applications by a programmer. … Continue reading →

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ARM (SOC – system on a chip) CPU’s , Programming from the ground up …….

Posted on June 18, 2015 by nigel borrington

Having spent the last three weeks deep in programming language study, reclaiming some C++ and Assembly language skills, I am more than overdue a post here 🙂 These three weeks however have prepared me very well to start sharing some … Continue reading →

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Radxa Rock and Banana pi BPI-M2 quad core single-board computers

Posted on May 19, 2015 by nigel borrington

Two new Additions to my Arm processor Linux development project …… During the last two week I have managed to add two more ARM based Development boards to my Linux OS development Project , the first being the Banana Pi … Continue reading →

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