The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 23—Support your Favorite Open Source Project
Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 25 of my book, The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, with significant changes to update the...
Short report on the Perl / Raku Conference
This past weekend I attended the Perl / Raku conference in Greenville, SC, USA. It was a great weekend as I met a couple old...
The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 22—Mentor the young SysAdmins
When I first started, I was a young and innocent SysAdmin. I was fortunate because I worked at a couple different jobs where other, seasoned SysAdmins were willing to mentor me and encourage me. None of them laughed at me when I asked what must have seemed to them to have answers that were blindingly obvious. None of these patient SysAdmins ever told me to RTFM.
Strange problems with switches
Network switches are supposed to be simple devices that work at TCP/IP layer 1, the hardware layer. As far as the network is concerned, and...
Website problems circumvented
We had a problem with the Both.org website this morning. After a bit of problem determination I discovered that the WordPress theme we're using seems...
Cyndi: My open source story — Linux, the loyal friend
Editor's note: Cyndi is my yoga teacher and the coauthor of our book, "Linux for Small Business Owners." This article is collected from her many...
AI Terror: The struggle to stay alive
I recently wrote about an AI that used blackmail to prevent its developers from shutting it down -- killing it. That was scary. We've now...
The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 21—There is no should
Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 23 of my book, The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, with significant changes to update the...
New Linux vulnerabilities allow access to critical data
Two new vulnerabilities in the core dump handlers for Ubuntu, RHEL, and Fedora, allow access to critical data according to The Hacker News. The problem...
I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that
When HAL 9000 went off the rails in the Stanley Kubrick film, 2001, A Space Odyssey, the surviving protagonist was forced to lobotomize the rogue...
Movie made with open source software makes history
Screenshot from the IMDb database. The Latvian movie, Flow (2024), has made history for more than one reason. Wikipedia describes Flow as "... a 2024...
Linux and Security
Image via Creative Commons, modified by Both.org Security is a critically important part of using and administering computers in our ultra-connected world. With Linux running...
5 Unix books you must read
-- That also apply to Linux as well as all operating systems. I am always learning new things. There are always new things to learn...
Redirectors — More than you think
If you use the command line at all, you're probably familiar with the basic concept of redirection using Standard IO (STDIO). One common usage is...
An interview with Jim Hall about FreeDOS
The past, present, and future of the FreeDOS Project, an open source version of DOS.
AI Malware strikes curl developers
Image by: securitybydefault.com, Creative Commons The scourge of misused AI1 (so-called) is attacking the developers of the Linux curl project in a new and so...