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Why *nix guys hate Windows

On my way to work this morning I had to stop at my friend’s place and pick up his two beautiful Labradors’ piles of crap since I got home too late last night to take my son to do it. Not an ideal start to a day. When I got to work, the morning took [...]

Red Hat Europe still powered by PHP4

I find this very hard to believe, but it seems that Red Hat Europe‘s site is still powered by PHP 4. PHP 4.3.2 to top it all off. This after PHP 4 reached it’s end of life more than a year ago. I guess the old saying applies: If it’s not broken, don’t fix it! [...]

Google Chrome OS hype

Google announced today their new Google Chrome OS. As they put it: “It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be,” and “However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web.” If one thinks about it, it makes a lot of sense what Google is [...]

Blasphemy! There is some seriously wrong with this picture…

Can you spot the blasphemy in this image below? I’m thinking of starting an email petition. Old skool style! ;) Lets hear it.

5 simple Bash tips

If you work in the command line on Bash a lot you’ll probably find that you often repeat commands. Often you need to run similar commands, but change something like a path, for example. Below are 5 very basic and simple things you should get into the habit of using as they just might make [...]

An age old debate laid to rest. How to pronounce Linux

Found this little gem over on dmiessler.com. I could not agree more with his statement: When an authority for a particular product or movement explicitly states how that thing is pronounced, that pronunciation does in fact become the correct one. So in case you are still say Linux in every imaginable way except the right [...]

Bash script or command to get a process id

Bash (a.k.a. Bourne Again SHell) is one of the best tools you’ll ever come across on Linux, Unix or OSX. You can do virtually anything with it! It is said that bash even cures cancer! Now, let me make this very, very clear… I’m not an expert. I haven’t written much bash scripts for the [...]