Jim Hall
Using these C compiler preprocessor directives to detect the operating system can make it easier to support...
David Both
Most system monitoring tools like top, htop, atop, glances, and others display individual processes and information about...
Image by Opensource.com: CC-by-SA 4.0 Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 13 of...
Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from Appendix 1 of my book, Linux for Small...
2 I’ve taken a lot of digital pictures over the years, and scanned a bunch more prints...
1 The operating system manages the operation of the computer and of the application software which runs...
Yes — dd — the disk destroyer. The command that strikes fear into the hearts of SysAdmins...
Don Watkins
Several weeks ago, a person asked me to assist her with organizing her financial records and taking...
Typing is not my forte and the Lazy SysAdmin does everything possible to reduce typing. I take...
ArsTechnica has an article about the thousands of Linux systems infected by this well-designed malware that’s been...
Pandoc is a versatile command-line tool facilitating seamless file conversions between different markup formats. It supports an...
I just discovered an important little program that allows me to stress-test my Linux hosts. Its name...
You know it's as easy to forget to write about testing the programs I write as it...
I just tried to update VirtualBox and encountered some strange problems. It started when a student of...
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In a previous article, 4 open source tools for Linux system monitoring, I looked at tools like...