Linux Fu: A Warp Speed Prompt
If you spend a lot of time at the command line, you probably have either a very basic prompt or a complex, information-dense prompt. If you are in the former …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: A Warp Speed Prompt
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A 6502, In The Shell
Shell scripting is an often forgotten programming environment, relegated to simple automation tasks and little else. In fact, it’s possible to achieve much more complex tasks in the shell. As …read more Continue reading A 6502, In The Shell
Linux Fu: Use the Source (Command), Luke
You can argue if bash is a good programming language or not, but you can’t argue that it is a programming language. However, there are a few oddities about it …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: Use the Source (Command), Luke
Wake, Boot, Repeat: Remote OS Selection with GRUB and ESP
What do you do when you need to choose an OS at boot but aren’t physically near your machine? [Dakhnod]’s inventive solution is a mix of GRUB, Wake-on-LAN (WOL), and …read more Continue reading Wake, Boot, Repeat: Remote OS Selection with GRUB and ESP
A CaptionCall Phone Succumbs To Doom, Again
Pour one out for yet another device conquered. This one’s a desk phone for conferences and whatnot, a colour display, a numpad, and a bog standard handset with a speaker …read more Continue reading A CaptionCall Phone Succumbs To Doom, Again
Linux Fu: USB Everywhere
It is a common problem: I have a USB device on a computer out in the shop, and I want to use it from the comfort of my office. What …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: USB Everywhere
Give Your Animal Crossing Villagers the Gift of Linux
If you’ve played any of the versions of Nintendo’s Animal Crossing over the years, you’ll know that eventually you get to the point where you’ve maxed out your virtual house …read more Continue reading Give Your Animal Crossing Villagers the Gift of Linux
Make a Secret File Stash In The Slack Space
Disk space is allocated in clusters of a certain size. When a file is written to disk and the file size is smaller than the cluster(s) allocated for it, there …read more Continue reading Make a Secret File Stash In The Slack Space
Nice PDF, But Can It Run Linux? Yikes!
The days that PDFs were the granny-proof Swiss Army knives of document sharing are definitely over, according to [vk6]. He has managed to pull off the ultimate mind-bender: running Linux …read more Continue reading Nice PDF, But Can It Run Linux? Yikes!
UScope: A New Linux Debugger And Not A GDB Shell, Apparently
[Jim Colabro] is a little underwhelmed with the experience of low-level debugging of Linux applications using traditional debuggers such as GDB and LLDB. These programs have been around for a …read more Continue reading UScope: A New Linux Debugger And Not A GDB Shell, Apparently