Windows Notepad Finally Supports Unix, Mac OS Line Endings
This Slashdot story links to this blog post by Microsoft. 33 years later, one of the most annoying issues with the Notepad text editor is resolved: Starting with the current Windows 10 Insider build,...
View Articlecommandlinefu – a place to share and gather command line wisdom
commandlinefu is a place to learn and share your knowledge about command line tools and techniques. It has thousands of tips, tricks, and handy shortcuts, covering a wide range of tools from shells...
View ArticleUnderstanding disk usage in Linux
“Understanding disk usage in Linux” is a well written in-depth look into the Linux filesystem layer and how things work under the hood. This is probably not something most people would have to deal...
View Articleup – the Ultimate Plumber
The Ultimate Plumber, or up for short, is an excellent interactive tool for anyone who is building complex command sequences for processing text on the Linux command line. If you are a frequent user...
View ArticleThe story of a 44 year old bug … still alive today
If there’s only one thing you’ll read online today, make it this one. Yes, it’s a rant. But it’s brilliant. It talks about an annoying bug in the Windows 10, which is still here today, in 2018, yet...
View ArticleThe History of Unix, Rob Pike
Rob Pike talks about the history of Unix and his quite remarkable career. And here’s my favorite quote from the video, referring to “The Unix Programming Environment” book: It is amazing to me that...
View ArticleUnix Folklore
Unix Folklore brings back a few bits of UNIX history from the Bell Labs: The UNIX operating system, which was created by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others at Bell Labs in the early 1970’s,...
View ArticleDotfile madness
“Dotfile madness” is an excellent look at the problem of hidden data and configuration files that seem to be multiplying lately in the users’ home directories: We are no longer in control of our home...
View ArticleUnix History Repository
Evolution of unix-history-repo (Gource Visualization) video shows how the UNIX operating system was born and how it matured over time. The video is based on this GitHub repository, which combines the...
View ArticleFalsehoods programmers believe about Unix time
A while back I blogged a collection of “Falsehoods programmers believe about …“. One of those things was time. Today I came across a nice addition to that – “Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix...
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