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Technology & Life Integration: Fiction or Future - Sep 25, 2008
It's just a bit of common sense really. If you work smart and plan ahead then you will have less work in the future. All because you prepared the base support structure beforehand. It is especially important when you …
Also tagged: compatibility, linux, smart, scale
Technology & Life Integration: Fiction or Future - Sep 24, 2008
Many times when looking around the internet for the rare program that is not in the repository. Or even if you want a newer version of a program that is in the repository. You will find that some sites have …
Technology & Life Integration: Fiction or Future - Sep 23, 2008
So many people shy away from the command line when using or configuring their computers. Graphical User Interfaces (GUI as in gooey) have become the preferred means of interacting with computers and people are so used …
Technology & Life Integration: Fiction or Future - Sep 11, 2008
I was having an interesting conversation with my BSD buddies on whether Ubuntu is suitable/not for servers and I did my usual bragging about the servers not needing to be rebooted. I was then asked about kernel updates …
Also tagged: kernel, reboot, kexec, power cycle
Technology & Life Integration: Fiction or Future - Sep 9, 2008
Old Mother Twitchett had but one eye, And a long tail which she let fly; And every time she went through a gap, A bit of her tail she left in a trap. "Tail" is a very useful command for reading the last few lines of …
Technology & Life Integration: Fiction or Future - Sep 4, 2008
It has happened to many of us at one time or an other. You wish to try out some super duper program that is not in your package manager yet or a friend has sent you a tar file of some juicy pictures or music files …
Technology & Life Integration: Fiction or Future - Aug 28, 2008
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!" Although the beast in this poetic snatch sounds quite fearsome the jabber server I …
Also tagged: chat, server, jabberwocky, ejabberd
Technology & Life Integration: Fiction or Future - Aug 5, 2008
In Linux as in windows every user has a unique identification number. Even the groups that the users are joined to have their own identification numbers. Windows calls it the SID or System ID. Linux has the UID and GID …
Technology & Life Integration: Fiction or Future - Aug 1, 2008
Tar is one of the most used programs in the *nix world. There is even a windows version. It is used for backup, compressing files and preparing packages for Linux. Personally I use tar for a lot of things. Mostly to do …
Technology & Life Integration: Fiction or Future - Jul 16, 2008
In a previous article titled "The strength of Linux is in it's flexibility" I mentioned that I had mixed up different versions of Debian and reverted back to a pure version. Here's how I did it. The first thing I did …