October 31, 2018 – Both.org

Book availability update

My book The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins is now available in hardcopy (softcover) at Amazon. Please note that for a couple days Amazon was fulfilling...

David Both

October 31, 2018

David has some beachy thoughts about solving problems, including one with the DNS in his hotel.
Don shares more of his experiences about working with Ollama and determining storage use of his models.
Jim shares how he uses the kernel random number generator in his programs.
Determining the size of a terminal window is critical to proper user interface creation with ncurses. Jim shows us how he does it.
Automation is important for the Lazy SysAdmin. Learn how David does it and why.
Combining his ncurses, terminal size detection, and random number code, Jim creates a simple number guessing game.
David uses Bash shell scrips for all his SysAdmin coding. He explains why SysAdmins should use shell scripts rather than compiled programs.
Don looks at Using Python and Ollama on a Linux desktop.

Working with Ollama

Beachy thoughts: Many ways to solve a problem

A gentle introduction to ncurses

Exploring Ollama and Llama 3.1 for Advanced Language Modeling

Heading to the Beach

Learn C by writing a number guessing game

Easy File Management with Thunar

Editing files with FreeDOS Edlin

Day: October 31, 2018

Book availability update