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Category: OpenSource
The command dmidecode is " is a tool for dumping a computer's DMI (some say SMBIOS) table contents in a human-readable format. This table contains a description of the system's hardware components, as well as other useful pieces of information such as serial numbers and...
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:06 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: OpenSource
No, don't go, stay! The NAME of the language is go. Which was a poor choice of name because it will be very hard to google "go." In fact, Google won't let you google "go" by default because it is one of the SLWs (stupid...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:02 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: OpenSource
Fight! Fight! The librarians are fighting about software!...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:21 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Technology
I don't mean blog posts or emails. For blog posts I use souped up gedit, and for emails I use pico. (There was a time when I thought I'd be using emacs for both of those, but emacs suffers from a deep philosophical dysfunction.) I'm...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:11 AM • 54 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Linux
And when I say bash math, I do not mean being mean to math, and I do not mean math as it is done in bash. I mean math as humans do it, but on the bash command line....
Posted by Greg Laden at 1:35 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Atheism
I would very much like your help in picking out a tee-shirt to wear around town. Let me tell you about the town, and you'll be able to make an appropriate suggestion....
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:00 AM • 52 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: OpenSource
My blogging brother Mike Dunford steps in to save poor old Apple Corporation from me and a few others who consider building corporate ads into an operating system to be evil. He's wrong, I'm right, but if you must go read his post and decide...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:16 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Linux
Log files are good because they log stuff, so you can find out what's been going on and troubleshoot. But they tend to accumulate and can actually fill up your hard drive. Most Linux distros have automatic log file management for common system logs, but...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:11 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: OpenSource
Well, not really. But if you are looking forward to this momentous occasion, have a look at Linux in Exile's pre-release commentary. Here....
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:15 PM • 44 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: OpenSource
You can get a partial list of the changes in the new version here....
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:04 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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