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Late last night both my Linux desktop's died. They're both on a UPS which does have surge protection. I JUST got one going minutes ago. I'm pretty sure the OS drives on both machines are toast. I'm glad I don't throw things away as I found an old drive with an even older version of CentOS...

I just ran across this video and thought some y'all might like it. It's the story of Dartmouth collage and their first computer. How they acquired it (they billed as furnitureo_O), used the Basic language, and wrote their own compiler so it could run on their computer. It takes place in the...

I came across this a Long Loooonngg time ago. Judging by the first paragraph, it's okay to redistribute. Even tho the email and URL links don't exist anymore. I haven't had to refer to it much lately. I hope you get as much out of this as I have. NOTE: these are just the sed commands &...

Back in '89, I had just moved in to my current house and started a job working in the aerospace industry. I was a machinist and ran a 5-axis CNC milling machine that cut jet engine nacelle forming tools and many other 3d forms and fixtures. Here's where the command Line comes in. ;) One day...

If you've ever wanted to have a cron job run on something other than a daily, weekly or monthly schedule. This might help. This is the crontab entry that will run a program on the first Monday of the month at 8AM. the first 0 is the minute, the 08 is 8AM 1-7 is days of the month it's can run...

Hello, I'm working on getting backup files from remote hosts. They are all in the same folder structure. (yes some are in sub-folders) I spent most of yesterday searching rsync threads for examples of using the find command embedded in the rsync command. However the all are for sending local...