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The Perfect Programmer

David Both July 19, 2025
1 August 10, 2014 I found this little bit of poetry in a pile of very old...
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A Small Algol 68 Project, Part 3

Chris Hermansen July 18, 2025
In memory of J. Kevin Douglas, a good friend and fellow fan of Algol 68 In the...
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3 ways to write bugs with FORTRAN 77

Jim Hall July 17, 2025
Explore old-style FORTRAN programming with Arithmetic IF, Computed GOTO, and Assigned GOTO.
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Using a Live USB for Linux recovery

David Both July 16, 2025
Over the years I’ve managed to need recovery mode quite a few times. Most of those instances...
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Getting Started with SELinux

David Both July 15, 2025
SELinux was developed by the NSA to provide a highly secure computing environment. True to the GPL,...
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A Small Algol 68 Project, Part 2

Chris Hermansen July 14, 2025
In memory of J. Kevin Douglas, a good friend and fellow fan of Algol 68 In the...
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About those livesys error messages

David Both July 11, 2025
Do you see error messages about livesys and livesys-late on the console and in the systemd journal...
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A Small Algol 68 Project, Part 1

Chris Hermansen July 10, 2025
In memory of J. Kevin Douglas, a good friend and fellow fan of Algol 68 In the...
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Fedora Repo issues during updates

David Both July 8, 2025
1 As I’ve been doing updates the last few days, I’ve noticed a problem with random systems...
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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 24—Reality Bytes

David Both July 7, 2025
Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 26 of my book, The Linux Philosophy...
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How to fix unresolvable file conflict errors upgrading or installing software RPMs

David Both July 4, 2025
1 I install updates on a pretty regular basis and — most of the time — they...
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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 23—Support your Favorite Open Source Project programming_keyboard_coding
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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 23—Support your Favorite Open Source Project

David Both July 3, 2025
1 Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 25 of my book, The Linux...
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Short report on the Perl / Raku Conference

David Both July 1, 2025
1 This past weekend I attended the Perl / Raku conference in Greenville, SC, USA. It was...
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Thinking about Algol 68

Chris Hermansen June 27, 2025
4 In memory of J. Kevin Douglas, a good friend and fellow fan of Algol 68 I...
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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 22—Mentor the young SysAdmins

David Both June 25, 2025
When I first started, I was a young and innocent SysAdmin. I was fortunate because I worked...
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Do I have enough space for that?

Jim Hall June 24, 2025
A little scripting goes a long way to make sure you won't run out of space with...
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Why I’ve Never Used Windows

On February 12 I gave a presentation at the Triangle Linux Users Group (TriLUG) about why I use Linux and why I’ve never used Windows.

Here’s the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/live/uCK_haOXPFM 

Why there’s no such thing as AI

Last October at All Things Open (ATO) I was interviewed by Jason Hibbits of We Love Open Source. It’s posted in the article “Why today’s AI isn’t intelligent (yet)“.

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