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I have always made /home a separate partition. This makes it so much easier to reinstall and/or wipe out a distro and install a new one. All of my files are left undisturbed.

One complication caused by shared libraries was the security threat. An executable using a shared library allowed the user to execute with a different (updated) library without rec…

Some people think today's file hierarchy is complicated. .That's amusing. I worked at an R&D center where we had hundreds of UNIX systems orf all types(i.e. Sun, Ultrix, HP, Symbol…

Summary: The temperature will continue to rise after removing meat from a grill. The thicker the meat, the more temperature is retained. You want the cut the meat when the proper t…

While Gibson is overly pompous, I should point out that SpinRite works below the file system structure, and not all filesystems are robust like ZFS, etc. Second - there are two mai…

I remember connecting in 1983/84. It was a trial by fire. I started learning Unix by using the Eunice emulator on VMS. I was doing such a good job on documentation (using nroff), t…

Usenet wasn't an app. It was a protocol. The programs we used were, as I recall, readnews (the official program), and rn - written by Larry Wall who later created perl. Rn was a wo…

The final (Rev 10) version of BusPirate V5 is shipping.

Debugging, prototyping, hacking, and reverse engineering electronics. There are many other boards, such as the Tigard, Bruschetta Board, GreatFET, Glasgow, and many other boards. M…

The thing I love about the Bus Pirate is that you don't need to install any software to use it. Just connect to the serial port. The Glasgow is cool as hell but you have to use Pyt…

You must be confused.

The Bus Pirate 5 (Preview version) is real and available for sale on the DirtyPCB's site - (same price as the V3) with the caveat that this is a beta and may not be the final versi…

Ian has said the old 15-year-old site is so archaic he didn't want to work with it anymore. And buspirate.com is a better domain name. The web site has a lot of information on it. …

I would ssh into remote systems, start emacs as my first command, and do everything inside of that emacs window - editing (scripts, config files, code), running shell scripts and p…

The first BASIC I used (1976?) was designed to run in a machine with 4K of memory (a 16-bit minicomputer). There was no operating system, nor no disk. You installed the program usi…

Nope. As someone who administered a VAX with 50 simultaneous users, it's not a problem. It only affect that process and that user during that session. A logout resets everything. A…

If you ever had to repair a disk using fsck when it had hundreds of errors, you would understand why yes(1) was created.

This was first mentioned in 1994, BTW. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_compu...

I run an AWS instance that hosts my own domain mail server. I have hundreds of email addresses, and each of them is forwarded to a gmail account. (I use the myaddress+tag@gmail.com…

Stacksmashing was able to get Doom running on an RP2040 with an LCD screen. I'd love to see it running on the Lily-GO board. https://usa.banggood.com/LILYGO-TTGO-T-Display-RP2040-R…

It might have been https://keycombiner.com/emacs/

No. That's not it. C-h t isn't really interactive. It's just a tutorial you can edit. The program I remember was a typing tutorial just for key binding.

I recall an interactive tutorial and practice tool that helped you learn emacs keybindings. It taught all of the previous/next character/word/expression/line key bindings. It helpe…

>That is more than 50 years of BEING WRONG. "I'd like to write software for you, but I have to wait 20 years before there's a suitable language to be invented first."