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Tips for faster note taking with Joplin

July 31, 2025July 24, 2025
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Disk Disaster

July 30, 2025July 30, 2025
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Ten moments that shaped Linux

July 29, 2025July 24, 2025
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My six tenets for learning to be a Linux SysAdmin

July 28, 2025July 28, 2025
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Three surprising reasons I like the Cinnamon desktop

July 25, 2025July 25, 2025
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My worst self-inflicted IT disaster

July 24, 2025July 24, 2025
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My Journey From Zero to Linux SysAdmin

July 23, 2025July 22, 2025
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Making FORTRAN 77 easier to read

July 22, 2025July 21, 2025
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An Algol 68 Pretty Printer

July 21, 2025July 17, 2025
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Month: May 2025

Command Line Linux

Extracting text with awk

The awk script interpreter is a very handy tool for systems administrators, and anyone else who uses Linux at the command line. With awk, you...

Jim Hall
May 30, 2025May 28, 2025
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Fixing problems I really borked it this time Problem Solving System Administration

My first sysadmin mistake

If you work in IT, you know that things never go completely as you think they will. At some point, you’ll hit an error, or...

Jim Hall
May 29, 2025May 27, 2025
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AI Opinion

I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that

When HAL 9000 went off the rails in the Stanley Kubrick film, 2001, A Space Odyssey, the surviving protagonist was forced to lobotomize the rogue...

David Both
May 28, 2025May 29, 2025
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Animation Linux News Open Source Software

Movie made with open source software makes history

Screenshot from the IMDb database. The Latvian movie, Flow (2024), has made history for more than one reason. Wikipedia describes Flow as "... a 2024...

David Both
May 27, 2025June 7, 2025
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CVE Linux Security

Linux and Security

Image via Creative Commons, modified by Both.org Security is a critically important part of using and administering computers in our ultra-connected world. With Linux running...

David Both
May 23, 2025
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Books Linux Unix

5 Unix books you must read

-- That also apply to Linux as well as all operating systems. I am always learning new things. There are always new things to learn...

David Both
May 22, 2025May 24, 2025
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Command Line Linux

Redirectors — More than you think

If you use the command line at all, you're probably familiar with the basic concept of redirection using Standard IO (STDIO). One common usage is...

David Both
May 20, 2025May 20, 2025
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History Linux

A brief history of the Linux desktop

Let’s look back on a brief history of the Linux desktop.

Jim Hall
May 19, 2025May 18, 2025
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KDE Plasma Linux

Fine tuning the KDE Plasma desktop

In the my blog post I wrote about the new Lenovo V 15 laptop I purchased and installed Fedora KDE Plasma 42. One of the...

Don Watkins
May 16, 2025May 16, 2025
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Linux Moving to Linux

Upgrading a Lenovo V15 to Fedora KDE Plasma

I’ve been looking for a new laptop for a couple of months because the one I’ve been using is missing a ‘P’ key. Replacing the...

Don Watkins
May 15, 2025May 9, 2025
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FreeDOS Interview

An interview with Jim Hall about FreeDOS

The past, present, and future of the FreeDOS Project, an open source version of DOS.

David Both
May 14, 2025May 16, 2025
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LibreOffice Linux ODF Open Document Format

Celebrating 20 Years of ODF: The Backbone of Open Standards

LibreOffice is a free and open-source office productivity suite developed by The Document Foundation (TDF). It originated as a fork of OpenOffice.org in 2010. I...

Don Watkins
May 13, 2025May 5, 2025
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Programming

How I use GNU Indent

Let GNU Indent make your source code easier to read.

Jim Hall
May 12, 2025May 5, 2025
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AI Slop Linux Malware Opinion

AI Malware strikes curl developers

Image by: securitybydefault.com, Creative Commons The scourge of misused AI1 (so-called) is attacking the developers of the Linux curl project in a new and so...

David Both
May 10, 2025May 8, 2025
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Linux QEMU

Emulating systems with QEMU

Here’s how I boot other systems using virtual machines in QEMU

Jim Hall
May 9, 2025May 9, 2025
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Hardware Linux

Make typing faster with the Keebio BDN9 macro pad

My brother recently gave me a Keebio BDN9 macro pad. It’s a configurable 9-key keyboard that supports all kinds of customizations, including little keycaps that...

Jim Hall
May 8, 2025May 4, 2025
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“systemd for SysAdmins” Now Available

May 13,2025

My latest book — a #1 New Release on Amazon — “systemd for Linux  SysAdmins” is now available from my publisher, Apress, and on Amazon.

2nd Edition now Available

All three volumes of this best-selling second edition of my Linux Self-Study course are now available from Apress and Amazon. See the details of this 3-volume self-study course.

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