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Plain English Explanation Of An Awk Statement For Linux Or Unix The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "I'll be the first to admit, though, that the examples were somewhat of a test for me when I first slapped them together and probably deserved to be explained more than they were. To that end, we'll look at one of the examples from yesterday and pick it apart, so Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Too Late For Halloween - Almost Unix/Linux Humor The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "I'm just sitting here, ready to grab up some more Unix and Linux humor off of the net and thinking what would work great for Halloween. My only problem is, probably, by the time you read this, it won't be Halloween anymore! This is what I get for planning in adv Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Online Encyclopedia Shell Script For Linux And Unix The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today's Linux/Unix bash shell script is a follow up (and the finishing touch, I hope ;) to a whole slew of scripts we've written to mine the knowledge on tap at reference.com." Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Bash Cable, Dish and Local TV Listings Script For Linux Or Unix The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "For this week's Monday Linux/Unix bash shell script continuation, we're following up on our script from last week. If you liked that one, please revisit last week's cabletv.sh script, as this one introduces some features which (while nice) introduce a bit of ext Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Unix And Linux Easter Eggs For The Wrong Holiday The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today, since it's just past Christmas and almost New Year's, I figured this would be a great time to trot out some Linux and/or Unix Easter eggs. Actually, it doesn't make sense at all, but if you can put aside your burnt-in sense of the chronological order of t Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Recovering Deleted Files By Inode Number In Linux And Unix The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "In our post, we're going to look at one condition under which Unix and Linux operating systems can actually hold onto files, even after they've been deleted, so that you can recover them." Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Isn't Linux Just UNIX Under a Different Name? The Linux Distillery: "What's the big deal about Linux? Isn't it at heart just a PC-based version of UNIX the 70s hit operating system which has outlived the predictions of its demise throughout the 90s? If youve come from a Solaris or HP/UX or AIX background isnt a PC-based UNIX a bi Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Fake Unix and Linux Advisory - The /dev/null Vulnerability The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "This is a humorous little fake CERT-like advisory concerning the implementation of /dev/null on all Unix and Linux operating systems and the disastrous effects of ignoring the problem." Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Happy Thanksgiving - Unix/Linux ASCII Art The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Below, a little ASCII art script that should run on any Linux or Unix distro. I don't know who created the original ASCII picture and I give credit to whomever it was. If this is your turkey, send me an email and I'll be happy to credit you with the catch!" Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Dealing With "Argument list too long" Errors on Linux and Unix The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Here's a question that gets asked a lot (and, consequently, answered a lot ;) on the boards. How do you go about dealing with a situation in which you're trying to take care of some business on your Linux or Unix box and you get stopped with the "Argument list t Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Why DU And DF Display Different Values On Linux And Unix The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today we're going to look at a little something that is a fairly hot-running-water issue on most of the Linux and Unix boards lately (actually, probably always has been, but our research staff quit on us ;) This post will be similar in focus to our previous post Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Robots to swarm English village in military contest Featured links from the CNET Blog Network Robots to swarm English village in military contest--U.K. Ministry of Defense is sponsoring its version of the DARPA Challenge this summer, with robot teams scouting out potential dangers. Latest quad-cores creep into consumer Home > Rss Directory > Technology > CNET |
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Kernel Developers Issue Joint Statement on Device Drivers Linux Foundation: The Linux kernel developers have released a position statement on closed source drivers and modules in Linux. Links to the statement and to a new whitepaper from the Linux Foundation that examines open and closed models for developing device drivers, within. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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More Perl One Liners For Linux Or Unix The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Almost time for the weekend, so I thought we'd go back and look at some more simple Perl one-liners. Note that this post is not really meant to be educational in any way, but maybe it'll help someone out there somewhere. If anything, it should pass a good 5 to 1 Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Comcast Gives Cold-Shoulder To Non-Profit School Running Linux Crashsystems: "However, the support agent refused to give her the case number, restating the fact that Comcast does not support Linux. He even went as far to say that the company supports Windows, Mac OSX, and even Unix (note that both Linux and OSX are a form of Unix), but not Linux." Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Finding Running Process ID's On Linux Using Pidof The Linux and Unix Menagerie: ""pidof," as the name would suggest, is a program that will find the process id (PID) of a running program (or the PID's of programs). Again, just like its name, it finds the "pid of" a running process. I'm just repeating this over and over again because the name Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Lists vs. Strings: Perl List Permutations For Linux Or Unix The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "That basic building block is known as the permutation of a list, as opposed to an array (or string). Given Perl's definitions, at their basic, a list is static and cannot be modified, while the opposite is true of an array." Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Unique Sorting Of Lists And Lists Of Lists With Perl For Linux Or Unix The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Yesterdays post on sorting Perl lists and removing duplicates did end up being a bit heavy at the end, as I feared. I received my fair share of "here's how you can do it better" emails..." Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Linux and Unix Humour - Wisdom For The Ages The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "One test is worth a thousand opinions." Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Script To Get Weather Forecasts For Your Zip Code The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today's Linux/Unix bash shell script is probably not the last follow up to the growing stable of scripts we've written to mine the knowledge on tap online. Today's info is grabbed from WeatherBug.com." Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |