Archive for November, 2003

Found: Great Newbie Tutorial, Part 2

Wednesday, November 26th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

This is part 2 in my review of the Windows-to-Linux roadmap series of article on the IBM Linux developerWorks site. The series is broken into nine steps. I ... Read more..

What are You gawk’ing At?

Thursday, November 20th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

First, Happy Birthday to my beautiful bride!!! gawk and its brothers awk, nawk and pgawk (No, This isn't Dr. Seuss.) are designed to allow some powerful functions. They are able to ... Read more..

Found: Great Newbie Tutorial

Monday, November 17th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I have come across a wonderful Linux tutorial. The tutorial was published in 9 short pieces on the IBM Linux developerWorks site. I also have to give credit ... Read more..

The Sweet Smell of Flux

Monday, November 17th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

When I published several screenshots on my blog, Erik commented that he'd like to learn how to do what I did with my desktop. He uses that klunky GNOME (or ... Read more..

Drastically Increase The Speed Of Your System With Almost No Work!

Friday, November 14th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I missed last week's article because I was at RedHat training. I meant to write an article when I got back, but as I was upgrading my RedHat 9 installation to Fedora I ... Read more..

Expressing Yourself in Scripts

Thursday, November 13th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Digging deeper into shell scripting requires some work in understanding regular expressions. Commands to help you mangle text like sed and awk or even grep can not be used to ... Read more..

Backups

Tuesday, November 11th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I am going to be writing a few articles for Uptime, and I want to start by introducing myself. My name is Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. My friends call me ... Read more..

Scripting for a Many-User System

Thursday, November 6th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

This week, we are going to focus on a specific direction of scripting. User administration is a wonderful world in which to script, but first you need to know the ... Read more..

Novell Acquisitions…

Tuesday, November 4th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Novell has bought Ximian earlier this year and has now moved onto a huge purchase of SUSE. This is perhaps the largest purchase of this significance to Linux ever to ... Read more..