Could there be an effective computer for students that are REALLY on a budget?

At some point during my last high school years, I caught the computer bug, and I couldn’t stay away from programmable devices.  Late-afternoon bus rides back to the city, followed by 20-minute walks to the local university, finding an unlocked door, sneaking in, trying to look a little older, and finally finding an unattended terminal […]

Installing Java 8 and Tomcat 8 on Debian Jessie or Raspbian or RedHat

Apache Tomcat is a Servlet/JSP container and version 8.0 implements the Servlet 3.1 and JavaServer Pages 2.3 specifications. Please note that Apache Tomcat 8.0 requires a Java Standard Edition Runtime Environment (JRE) version 7 or later. So we start with installing a recent version of Oracle’s JRE. Install Oracle JRE 8 on Debian Linux (or Raspbian) […]