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Teaching technical writing with open source

Jim Hall January 8, 2024
1 In addition to my work as a consultant, I also teach a few courses on technical...
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Liquid Cooling Failure

David Both January 7, 2024
Modern motherboards make a cooling failure less catastrophic than it could have been.
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Audio Preservation Challenges

Don Watkins January 6, 2024
Creation of DVDs from unusual file formats can be a challenge. Open source tools can be used...
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Linux Boot and Startup

David Both January 5, 2024
Understanding the boot and Linux startup processes is important to being able to both configure Linux and...
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Everything is a file

David Both January 4, 2024
When everything is a file Difficult things are easy and impossible things are merely hard.
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Creating a universal live Linux USB drive

Don Watkins January 4, 2024
Image by Don Watkins. CC-by-SA 4.0 Use them for troubleshooting problems and to demonstrate the beauty and...
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Working with data streams on the Linux command line

David Both January 3, 2024
Learn to connect data streams from one utility to another using STDIO. Everything in Linux revolves around...
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Conquering the Command Line for Linux Beginners

Don Watkins January 2, 2024
12 Essential Linux Commands for Beginners
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How I migrated a WordPress website to a new host

David Both January 1, 2024
Use this simple approach to migrate a website and manage firewall configurations.
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Linux Love Affair: Screenfetch vs. Neofetch – Who Wears the Crown? metrics_data_dashboard_system_computer_analytics
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Linux Love Affair: Screenfetch vs. Neofetch – Who Wears the Crown?

Don Watkins December 31, 2023
Image by: Opensource.com CC-by-SA 4 You might want to share your Linux configuration with others for many...
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Future-Proofing Education: Why WordPress is the PK-12 Platform You Need

Don Watkins December 30, 2023
I believe that WordPress has a place in every PK-12 school. Most teachers are looking for ways...
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Programming Bash #8: Initialization and sanity testing

David Both December 29, 2023
1 In previous articles of this series we created our first, very small, one-line Bash script. We...
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How to encourage positive online communication in your open source community

AmyJune Hineline December 28, 2023
2 The Drupal community uses nudges to keep conversations productive and inclusive. Threaded online conversations are a...
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Programming Bash #7: Bash Program Needs Help

David Both December 28, 2023
So far in this series we created our first, very small, one-line Bash script. We also explored...
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Programming Bash #6: Creating a template

David Both December 27, 2023
In the previous article in this series we created our first, very small Bash script. We also...
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An Introduction to Linux Filesystems

David Both December 26, 2023
This article is intended to be a very high-level discussion of Linux filesystem concepts. It is not...
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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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