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IBM Announces Record-Setting UNIX Server
[2008-04-10] You can almost imagine someone calling ladies and gentlemen, along with boys and girls of all ages, to gather 'round; IBM recently showed off a new supercomputer and what the company called "the world's fastest UNIX server."
SCO's McBride Facing The Exit
[2008-03-05] Bankruptcy and the subsequent reorganization at SCO will mean the end of the CEO run for Darl McBride.
Trying to Recover SCO Medical Manager
[2008-01-29] Recently I went out to try to recover a SCO system running Medical Manager.
Any Hope for SCO?
[2008-01-04] SCO's stock price sank and sank and recently they've been delisted: you can't buy their stock on NASDAQ anymore (though it's hard to imagine why you would want to - you'd need a lot of faith and hope to be chasing this rabbit!).
Another SCO Unix Filepro System Bites the Dust
[2007-12-11] I spent most of yesterday on the phone helping another consultant port a SCO Unix Filepro system over to Linux.
Who Locked that File?
[2007-11-19] I can't even imagine how many times I've heard someone complain about a locked file.
SCO Bumbles Along
[2007-11-15] I now, I know: don't kick a man when he's down. Poor SCO doesn't have much time left on this earth, and here I am complaining about their stuff.. oh well, I'm a horrible person and that's just the way it is.
Quest & PassGo Team up on Unix Identity Management Products
[2007-10-16] Quest Software and PassGo Technologies have entered into an OEM agreement to globally distribute two products for managing and auditing privileged access to Unix systems.
Is There Always a Better Way?
[2007-09-25] I happened upon a recent Linux-Watch article about Dell's Dynamic Kernel Module Support.
SCO Goes Bankrupt
[2007-09-18] No great surprise...
Linux and Non-compete Agreements?
[2007-07-31] There seems to be a lot of discussion about whether Project Indiana at openSolairs is a Linux clone or not.
How Do I Change my PS1 Command Prompt in Bash?
[2007-07-17] I have read about 15 chapters of your book (Teach Yourself UNIX in 24 Hours) so far. We are using vi. On the PS1 command, how do I see what is in it so I can add to it and not change what is already there? We are using bash.
Bug in Shell Script Using awk to Read /etc/passwd?
[2007-06-29] In your book Wicked Cool Shell Scripts, on p. 115, Script #40 Reporting Disk Hogs, on the 8th line the second part of the line reads:
Case Study: Managing a Worldwide Print Infrastructure from a Central Location
[2007-06-19] Company - This US based company is one of the world's largest manufacturers of automotive parts and sub-assemblies in the world.
Linux Software RAID vs. Hardware RAID
[2007-03-13] Over the years, I've configured and happily used Linux Software RAID on numerous servers. It has proven to be amazingly resilient and quite stable.
Configuring a Linux NTP Server
[2007-02-13] Network Time Protocol (NTP) provides algorithms and defines messages for the synchronisation of time clients to an accurate time reference.
Howto Backup your Mac incrementally over SSH
[2007-01-30] Do you have access to a shell account on a unix server with some spare space? If so it's pretty easy to incrementally backup your files securely with SSH.
Background Tasks (Why?)
[2007-01-11] A comp.unix.shell newsgroup post asked a neophyte question about how to run a script in the background.
GoboLinux - A Breath of Fresh Air?
[2006-12-27] My very first reaction to GoboLinux was negative. The underlying idea of taming the Unix/Linux file system hierarchy with symbolic links isn't new: heck, SCO did that way back with their 3.2v4.0 release, and for exactly the same reasons (see the Software Storage Objects- SSO section at this link).
The Influence of Unix on NT
[2006-12-11] For several years now I've been looking for something Bill Gates said. Unfortunately I had misremembered the actual words, and every time I found someone who thought they remembered it, they had the wrong words too and I'd come up dry yet again.
More Reasons to Love Unix/Linux
[2006-11-27] I did a lot of clean-up work at this website over the long Thanksgiving weekend. This was all due to radically changing the layout. Some of that was quick and simple do do, but for older pages I needed to do some hand editing before switching to the new format.
The 15 Commands Essential for Unix
[2006-11-14] Learning UNIX is a seemingly daunting task, there are thousands of commands out there, each with hundreds of options. But in reality you only need to know a few of them.
Reconsidering The Value Of OSS Indemnification
[2006-11-06] With Microsoft agreeing not to sue Novell SLES Support Subscription customers for patent infringement issues, maybe it's time to reconsider the value of OSS indemnification?
Vi in a Nutshell
[2006-10-24] The unix text editor vi probably has more features than Microsoft Word yet I've only been using about 5 of them. Recently I've been learning a bit more about it.
A List of Amazon S3 Backup Tools
[2006-10-09] In an effort to replace my home backup server with Amazon's S3, I've been collecting a list of Amazon S3 compatible backup tools to look at.
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