Posts Tagged ‘linux’

Linux at 25: Why It Flourished While Others Fizzled – IEEE Spectrum

Saturday, April 30th, 2016

#Linux at 25: Why It Flourished While Others [eg Hurd,
BSD’s Net/2] Fizzled
http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/linux-at-25-why-it-flourished-while-others-fizzled Licensing, level of completion, leader
nice graphics of linux growth

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how to get full path of a unix file

Saturday, September 6th, 2014

ON MAC:

1. Drag the file from finder to a terminal. Yes, pull it out with some effort and just drop it right there…

2. The full path will magically show up in no time!

ON LINUX

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5265702/how-to-get-full-path-of-a-file According to Stackoverflow, you should do:

readlink -f file.txt

ON BOTH:

find $PWD -iname “*” -maxdepth 1

find $PWD -maxdepth 1

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How to set up ssh so you aren’t asked for a password

Saturday, September 6th, 2014

https://www.debian.org/devel/passwordlessssh

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The Rebel Code – NY Times (a blast from the past!)

Saturday, October 20th, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/21/magazine/the-rebel-code.html

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