In a previous article, 4 open source tools for Linux system monitoring, I looked at tools like...
Month: September 2024
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I have been experimenting extensively with Ollama and other artificial intelligence tools, and the answers to my...
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The change from the venerable nsswitch and NetworkManager to systemd-resolved has damaged and slowed name services. The...
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Most lists of things we do to learn Linux ignore the bits you don’t really need to...
Sometimes we run into articles on other sites that we wish we’d written. This one on ZDNET...
There’s a bit of clarification needed in Volume 1, Chapter 4, Preparation, of my book series, Using...
I learned a neat new trick today that greatly improves my work with Vim when I’m editing...
We can’t be too careful about ensuring that our personal data is safe, both paper documents and...
Continuing my exploration of using a locally hosted Ollama on my Linux desktop computer, I have been...
Last Updated on July 6, 2025 by David Both Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part...
Use the flexibility of ncurses to create a guess-the-number game on Linux.
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1 When programs like vi first came along, terminals had a predefined size: usually 80 columns and...