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Redirectors — More than you think

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A brief history of the Linux desktop

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Fine tuning the KDE Plasma desktop

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Upgrading a Lenovo V15 to Fedora KDE Plasma

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An interview with Jim Hall about FreeDOS

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Celebrating 20 Years of ODF: The Backbone of Open Standards

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How I use GNU Indent

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AI Malware strikes curl developers

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Emulating systems with QEMU

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Month: January 2020

Security

Security by obscurity — NOT!

As you can see in the posts below I switched internet service providers on Monday of this week. As a result I received a different...

David Both
January 23, 2020January 23, 2020
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Outage

Network migration complete

The migration to AT&T fiber is now complete and everything went very well. Of course that is not to say it was problem-free. I have...

David Both
January 21, 2020December 6, 2020
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Information Outage

Network migration Monday, January 20

Outages through Monday Due to a large number of intermittent outages with my current internet provider, I have decided to move to a new provider....

David Both
January 17, 2020January 17, 2020
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Event Linux Open Source 101 Speaking engagements

Speaking at Open Source 101

I will be speaking at Open Source 101 in Columbia, SC, on March 3. I will present an extended 3 hour session entitled, "Configuring and...

David Both
January 15, 2020February 19, 2020
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Outage

Intermittent web site outages

Due to issues with Spectrum business class, this web site is experiencing intermittent outages. I expect them to arrive here between 2pm and 3pm Wednesday,...

David Both
January 14, 2020January 14, 2020
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Book Using and Administering Linux: Zero to SysAdmin

Great first review

I am really happy to get a great 5-star first review on my Linux self-study series, Using and Administering Linux – Zero to SysAdmin. Among...

David Both
January 12, 2020January 15, 2020
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Book News Using and Administering Linux: Zero to SysAdmin

“Using and Administering Linux – Zero to SysAdmin” to be translated into Korean

This morning I learned from my editor that Apress has licensed all three volumes of Using and Administering Linux – Zero to SysAdmin for translation...

David Both
January 7, 2020
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Opinion Security

High Anxiety

Yesterday was a very challenging day for me. It involved winblowze 10 which is not a common thing for me to touch. Very uncommon, in...

David Both
January 4, 2020January 4, 2020
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Random Quote

Unix never says ‘please’.

— Rob Pike

“systemd for SysAdmins” Now Available

May 13,2025

My latest book, “systemd for Linux  SysAdmins” is now available from my publisher, Apress, and on Amazon.

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