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Thinking about Algol 68

Chris Hermansen June 27, 2025
4 In memory of J. Kevin Douglas, a good friend and fellow fan of Algol 68 I...
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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 22—Mentor the young SysAdmins testing-linux
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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 22—Mentor the young SysAdmins

David Both June 25, 2025
When I first started, I was a young and innocent SysAdmin. I was fortunate because I worked...
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Do I have enough space for that? data_stack_blue_disks
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Do I have enough space for that?

Jim Hall June 24, 2025
A little scripting goes a long way to make sure you won't run out of space with...
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A beginner’s guide to dc Undated photograph, probably circa late nineteen sixties of a Unix developers Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at a DEC PDP 11 computer running Unix. In the left of the photo, Ritchie is standing and watching Thompson, who is sitting at one of two teletype terminals used as consoles to interface with the computer.
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A beginner’s guide to dc

Jim Hall June 23, 2025
Learn the basics of this handy command line calculator.
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Strange problems with switches rh_003499_01_other21x_cc
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Strange problems with switches

David Both June 19, 2025
1 Network switches are supposed to be simple devices that work at TCP/IP layer 1, the hardware...
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Nextcloud is a snap

Don Watkins June 18, 2025
Recently I have been tasked with assisting a local medical office with finding a new way to...
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Website problems circumvented

David Both June 17, 2025
We had a problem with the Both.org website this morning. After a bit of problem determination I...
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Breaking Free from Windows 10: KDE Plasma Is Your Upgrade to Freedom KDE-Plasma-10-Desktop
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Breaking Free from Windows 10: KDE Plasma Is Your Upgrade to Freedom

Don Watkins June 17, 2025
1 October 14, 2025, is a big day if you’re a Microsoft Windows user. That’s the day...
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I need a list of URLs command_line_prompt
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I need a list of URLs

Jim Hall June 16, 2025
I used the command line to do in seconds what would have needed more than ten minutes...
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Cyndi: My open source story — Linux, the loyal friend myopensourcestory
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Cyndi: My open source story — Linux, the loyal friend

David Both June 13, 2025
Editor’s note: Cyndi is my yoga teacher and the coauthor of our book, “Linux for Small Business...
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How to remove a stuck kernel from GRUB linux_boot
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How to remove a stuck kernel from GRUB

Jim Hall June 12, 2025
Here's how to fix the GRUB menu configuration from the command line.
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What USB device is that? command_line_prompt
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What USB device is that?

Jim Hall June 11, 2025
Use kernel messages to identify which disk device you can mount.
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How to selectively apply updates data_stack_blue_disks
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How to selectively apply updates

Jim Hall June 10, 2025
Here’s how I selectively apply updates, excluding any kernel packages.
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Straight quotes from pandoc Drawing of a man with beard sittingat a laptop with applications in the background.
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Straight quotes from pandoc

Jim Hall June 9, 2025
Change pandoc's curly quotes into straight quotes with this script.
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Viewing PDF documents in console mode

Jim Hall June 6, 2025
1 I have a Raspberry Pi 3 that’s sat unused for the last few years. I used...
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AI Terror: The struggle to stay alive automation-gears-person
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AI Terror: The struggle to stay alive

David Both June 5, 2025
I recently wrote about an AI that used blackmail to prevent its developers from shutting it down...
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Why I’ve Never Used Windows

On February 12 I gave a presentation at the Triangle Linux Users Group (TriLUG) about why I use Linux and why I’ve never used Windows.

Here’s the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/live/uCK_haOXPFM 

Why there’s no such thing as AI

Last October at All Things Open (ATO) I was interviewed by Jason Hibbits of We Love Open Source. It’s posted in the article “Why today’s AI isn’t intelligent (yet)“.

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