Tag Archives: Linux

Command of the Day

October 26, 2008 – 10:58 am

Casual and not-so-casual readers of this blog know I’m a Linux/Unix guy. I fire up the work peecee for e-mail; since moving to my new location a month ago, I don’t even do that anymore. My new cube has only one network connnection, and that is used by my Linux workstation, running a Gnome [...]

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Exotic Environment Variables

September 6, 2008 – 2:27 pm

One simultaneous curse and blessing of having worked with Unix systems for lots of years is that I encounter features and programs that I’d heard of, but never explored in any fashion. These encounters are uniformly all fun, after I realize what not-used feature had bitten me in the butt.
And so it was last week, [...]

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