August 7, 2024 – Both.org

The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 03 — Everything is a File

Author's note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 5 of my book, The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, with some changes. This is one...

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.