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28 January 2009
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Operating Systems Analogy to cars and car dealerships

With one exception, that is: Linux, which is right next door, and which is not a business at all. It’s a bunch of RVs, yurts, tepees, and geodesic domes set up in a field and organized by consensus. The people who live there are making tanks. These are not old-fashioned, cast-iron Soviet tanks; these are more like the M1 tanks of the U.S. Army, made of space-age materials and jammed with sophisticated technology from one end to the other.

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22 January 2009
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Yet another good reason to think about breaking free from your mental slavery to microsoft

Here’s yet another good reason to think about breaking free from your mental slavery to microsoft. The same ones who had 4 xp desks in a perpetually broken state, even with AV and limited accounts, haven’t broken a default linux install yet.

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19 January 2009
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Smallest Linux Computer in the World!

The smallest linux computer in the world! 19 milimeters by 19 millimeters tall!

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5 January 2009
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Why Linux is better than Windows

When a windows slave asks me why I use Linux instead of Windows “like everyone else”, I’m just going to send them this link from now on. It’s easy to understand for those windows zombies that mope around day after day just doing as their told, drinking the windows …

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3 January 2009
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Recession vs. Linux

The food and restaurant industry might be down across the board, but some areas seem to be doing quite fine. Amazon is reporting record sales this year. http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-trucks/daily-news/081230-Amazon-Reports-Record-Holiday-Sales/
I was in a mall today and saw a line 20 deep in the food court for Taco Bell. People …

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29 December 2008
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Chuck Norris Linux

Why Linux doesn’t have any viruses? Because Chuck Norris uses it!
A Linux designed by Chuck Norris would require no backups, as it would be too scared of Chuck to fail.
CPUs run faster to get away from Chuck Norris
If Chuck Norris wrote Linux, the kernel would always panic.
If Chuck Norris …

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24 November 2008
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How to automate just about anything using cron jobs

Cron is so simple yet so useful I think it’s often unappreciated! Being able to toss a command into a cron, or execute a script at specific times of the day, days of the week, etc. That’s good stuff!

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14 October 2008
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Use FSVS to keep track of Linux server configuration changes

FSVS is the abbreviation for “Fast System Versioning” and is pronounced [fisvis].
It is a complete backup/restore/versioning tool for all files in a directory tree or whole filesystems, with a subversion repository as the backend. 
Using this application, all files(almost) in /etc/ are maintained in a subversion repository. As files get created …

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10 October 2008
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shell scripting on an old ppc

In a shell script you’re probably testing a variable against some constant or another variable, but why not run a command in a subshell and compare the output?  You could even compare the output of two subshell commands!  I guess most of the time i’m doing something like this i’m …

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25 September 2008
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Setup your own YUM repository, the easy way!

I don’t understand why some people think this is a complicated thing to set up, so here goes my approach which I think is the easiest method.  Perhaps you’re behind a very restrictive corporate firewall or you want to conserve bandwidth when you’re setting up several machines.  You can set …

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