Knowing the exact time is important to computers for many reasons. A GPS, which is a computer,...
I’ve been interested in photography since I co-opted my father’s Kodak 620 camera as a young boy....
Make backups of your personal data in case your laptop is lost, stolen, or damaged.
After some time using terminal sessions they can get a bit cluttered with previous commands and their...
Using enumerations with enum makes it easy to store values in a program, yet keep the code...
Keeping your Linux computer as safe as possible from various types of cyber attacks is only possible...
Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 18 of my book, The Linux Philosophy...
1 The Linux operating system can be implemented in many ways, and these implementations can very generally...
LibreOffice.org is my preferred productivity suite, and I’ve covered how I use it both as a graphical office...
Using bit fields and bit masks is a common method to combine data without using more complex...
1 Most SysAdmins use a diverse set of commands, but it’s usually the same set of commands....
Emmanuel Engelhart and Renaud Gaudin wanted everyone to have access to Wikipedia, and in 2007, the dream became a reality...
Help test the next version of FreeDOS with the FreeDOS 1.4 Release Candidate 1 distribution.
1 I use a lot of tools in my daily SysAdmin role. One of the most important...
A conversation with a friend today led me to remember Etherpad. In an age of digital collaboration, finding...
Here's how I used 'find' and 'xargs' to locate the articles I wrote and count the words.