There’s been something that’s been on my mind as of late, and it’s been bothering me enough that I’m finally blogging about it, and that’s the hypocrisy that is the Linux community. If I’m way out of line, let me know. If I’m off base, let me know.
To start, I’ll begin with the [...]
My Guru Labs coworker mentioned something to me today, that our boss mentioned to him (or a class, who knows), and that is that every operating system turns to Unix eventually. Thinking about this for a second, he’s right.
First, there are the obvious Unix-like operating systems such as GNU, Linux, Minix, and others. [...]
This may be old hat for some, but I just discovered today that it is possible to have duplicate user IDs on the same Linux machine. The ‘useradd’ and ‘adduser’ commands will not allow it:
root@kratos:~# useradd -u 0 test_root
useradd: UID 0 is not unique
However, not to fear. Hand-editing the /etc/passwd file is possible, [...]
I know this is old hat, as I’ve seen it on the blogosphere for a couple of weeks now, but I can’t help but post about it myself. Ubuntu Linux is selling at Best Buy for only $20.00. I have yet to grab a copy myself, but plan on doing so as soon [...]
Last week, my wife called me to tell me that we had been infected by a virus and that she couldn’t get online without her browser being forwarded to inappropriate sites. Further, there were new icons on the desktop, nasty messages popping up all over the workspace, and a saturated network. Sounds like [...]
Goodbye Twitter and your buggy service. Goodbye Jaiku and your spammy bot. Goodbye Pownce and your 20 users. Hello Identi.ca and Free Software. Reasons for switching to Identi.ca for my microblogging service:
The code powering the service is Free Software, licensed under the GNU Affero GPL.
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