Posts Tagged “Unix”
Why No Games on Linux?
by enum on May 11, 2010
Thought I would share an interesting article on why there are no games on linux. Want more games on linux? Solve these problems!
Incremental Backup on FreeBSD with tar
by enum on May 10, 2010
Recently the rsync server at work broke down, and I needed a quick solution for incremental backup using just FTP. As it turns out, the FreeBSD version of tar is not GNU tar. So in order to use the following (…)
pdnsd and NetworkManager
by enum on May 9, 2010
If you run arch linux or a similar minimal distro, you may be familiar with the local dns server pdnsd, used to cache DNS queries. If you try to run pdnsd on the same computer as NetworkManager, you may run (…)
Functional Programming with the Unix Command Line
by enum on June 25, 2009
I was pondering the unix command line the other day while reading sed & awk, and I came to the following revelation: variables aside, the unix command line is a lot like functional programming. Using the command line, you can (…)
Scripting Languages
by enum on June 22, 2009
I just thought I’d share with you Random thoughts on scripting languages by Brian Kernighan. After reading this, I looked up the source code to the unix utility wc. The GNU wc program was written in C, and amounted to (…)