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Draw a Cylon eye in DOS

Jim Hall February 5, 2025
Have fun by writing a program to simulate a Cylon's sweeping red eye
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How I reverted to Name Service Switch (NSS) for name resolution — And why api.openverse-03
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How I reverted to Name Service Switch (NSS) for name resolution — And why

David Both February 4, 2025
There are problems with the new systemd-resolved resolver and that gives us some good reasons to keep...
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Quoting text with ‘sed’

Jim Hall February 3, 2025
Another great use of sed to make quick edits to a text file.
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How I automate file edits with ‘sed’

Jim Hall January 31, 2025
Here’s a neat command line trick to make changes to a text file.
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How ActivityPub is Reshaping Social Networking

Don Watkins January 30, 2025
I have been a Mastodon user for nearly six years. I started on Fosstodon and have since moved to Mastodon....
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My Go-To Podcasts for Linux and Open Source programming-code-keyboard-laptop-music-headphones
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My Go-To Podcasts for Linux and Open Source

Don Watkins January 28, 2025
I spend much time on the road or walking around my village and enjoy listening to podcasts...
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New book announcement

David Both January 27, 2025
I’m currently working on a new book that will be available in July 2025, “systemd for Linux...
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Using the dmesg command th-2358250818
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Using the dmesg command

David Both January 24, 2025
As a SysAdmin I frequently need to access the kernel log to obtain information of various types....
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How to get started in open source?

Don Watkins January 23, 2025
Linux, LibreOffice, GnuCash, and Audacity are all open-source projects, meaning the folks who write the code and/or...
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How Linux keeps time

David Both January 22, 2025
Knowing the exact time is important to computers for many reasons. A GPS, which is a computer,...
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A Journey Towards Ad-Free Photography Sharing

Don Watkins January 21, 2025
I’ve been interested in photography since I co-opted my father’s Kodak 620 camera as a young boy....
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Personal backups with ‘rsync’

Jim Hall January 20, 2025
Make backups of your personal data in case your laptop is lost, stolen, or damaged.
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How to get a clean screen — on the command line magnifying-glass-zero
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How to get a clean screen — on the command line

David Both January 18, 2025
After some time using terminal sessions they can get a bit cluttered with previous commands and their...
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Using enumerations in C

Jim Hall January 17, 2025
Using enumerations with enum makes it easy to store values in a program, yet keep the code...
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How to do updates on the command line How to do updates on the command line
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How to do updates on the command line

David Both January 16, 2025
Keeping your Linux computer as safe as possible from various types of cyber attacks is only possible...
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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 16 —Find the simplicity bulb-light-energy-power-idea
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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 16 —Find the simplicity

David Both January 15, 2025
Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 18 of my book, The Linux Philosophy...
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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 

David Both ATO Interview

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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