Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 26 of my book, The Linux Philosophy...
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1 I install updates on a pretty regular basis and — most of the time — they...
1 This past weekend I attended the Perl / Raku conference in Greenville, SC, USA. It was...
When I first started, I was a young and innocent SysAdmin. I was fortunate because I worked...
A little scripting goes a long way to make sure you won't run out of space with...
Learn the basics of this handy command line calculator.
1 Network switches are supposed to be simple devices that work at TCP/IP layer 1, the hardware...
Recently I have been tasked with assisting a local medical office with finding a new way to...
I used the command line to do in seconds what would have needed more than ten minutes...
Here's how to fix the GRUB menu configuration from the command line.
Use kernel messages to identify which disk device you can mount.
Here’s how I selectively apply updates, excluding any kernel packages.
Change pandoc's curly quotes into straight quotes with this script.
1 I have a Raspberry Pi 3 that’s sat unused for the last few years. I used...
I’m going to show my age when I share that my first Unix system was a Sun...
Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 23 of my book, The Linux Philosophy...