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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 08 — Always use shell scripts osdc_terminals_0
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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 08 — Always use shell scripts

David Both September 19, 2024
Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 9 of my book, The Linux Philosophy...
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Write a guessing game in ncurses

Jim Hall September 18, 2024
Use the flexibility of ncurses to create a guess-the-number game on Linux.
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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 07 — Automate Everything Drawing of a man with beard sittingat a laptop with applications in the background.
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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 07 — Automate Everything

David Both September 17, 2024
SysAdmins are most productive when creating the shell programs that automate the solutions that they have conceived...
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Terminal size and ncurses

Jim Hall September 16, 2024
1 When programs like vi first came along, terminals had a predefined size: usually 80 columns and...
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Searching text files from the command line

Jim Hall September 15, 2024
The find command is a powerful and flexible tool to locate files under a path.
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Random numbers from the Linux kernel

Jim Hall September 14, 2024
Let the kernel generate random numbers for you using 'getrandom.'
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Working with Ollama

Don Watkins September 13, 2024
Now that I’m working with Ollama, I needed to figure out how to locate the models on...
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Beachy thoughts: Many ways to solve a problem

David Both September 12, 2024
I’m always thinking about solving problems and the beach doesn’t change that. It’s kind of the way...
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A gentle introduction to ncurses

Jim Hall September 11, 2024
You can create your own programs that use a text user interface to control the screen.
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Sharing Linux with a friend

Don Watkins September 10, 2024
I volunteer with Meals on Wheels once a week, and one of the clients on my route...
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Exploring Ollama and Llama 3.1 for Advanced Language Modeling openwires_fromRHT_520_0612LL
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Exploring Ollama and Llama 3.1 for Advanced Language Modeling

Don Watkins September 9, 2024
Everywhere you look, someone is talking or writing about artificial intelligence. I have been keenly interested in...
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Heading to the Beach

David Both September 8, 2024
Tomorrow, Saturday as I write this, we'll be heading to Atlantic Beach, our current favorite. By then...
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Learn C by writing a number guessing game code_development_programming
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Learn C by writing a number guessing game

Jim Hall September 7, 2024
The “Guess the number” game is a fun way to learn a new programming language.
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Easy File Management with Thunar hard_drives
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Easy File Management with Thunar

David Both September 6, 2024
Computers are all about files. Linux itself is a collection of many files; application programs like LibreOffice...
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Editing files with FreeDOS Edlin

Jim Hall September 5, 2024
Edlin is a classic editor from the early DOS days, but it’s still a fun and useful...
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Setting the status line for the screen program

David Both September 4, 2024
In my recent article about the Screen program, I mention that one of the best things about...
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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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