There are a number of things that I did not address in my post yesterday. My only goal in that post was to illustrate a (rather simple) network that had four subnets. I probably should have posted this article first, but I did not really think about that. This post is going to be somewhat long [...]

Of the many controversies in free software, this is one that I have long found to be interesting.  People seem to define things in different ways, which leads to confusion (and arguing) when one person calls a system a "GNU/Linux" system and the next calls it just the "Linux" system.  Too often, I have found people saying "You [...]

Once upon a time, adequate space was a rare thing to come across, and so many UNIX and UNIX-like systems set aside an allocation of space reserved for root when a filesystem is formatted. This usually is done as a percentage of the filesystem—by default with ext{2,3,4} file systems, that is 5%. This tends to [...]

This post is a bit of a “brain dump” of sorts for some thoughts that I have as to replacing AllTray with a more versatile, powerful, and robust tool to handle various needs of users when it comes to taking applications and docking them to the system tray. Why? I’ve used AllTray for a long [...]

No, not the PlayStation. PS1, the shell prompt variable. This prompt should work on any system that has the lsb_release utility installed. If you don’t have that installed, then you can change the OS_RELEASE variable to match whatever system you’re using, by hand. Append the following to the end of your ~/.bashrc (if you use [...]

So, Reiser has pointed the police to the body of Nina Reiser (link via Slashdot). The body has been exhumed, and they’re going to be confirming the identity of the body soon, I should expect. The action came as a result between Reiser and the DA reaching an agreement that essentially said “the body for [...]

It seems that Nelson over at the OSI’s Web site is confused about how “fundamentalist” can be applied to an Open Source advocate. It can be done; one just has to remember that a “fundie” (the variant of the word which makes the malicious connotation clear) is someone that exists at a special place called [...]

Jon wrote “For Me, It’s Linux, Not GNU/Linux” today. I notice that every so often, this issue crops up again in some circles. Many people feel that saying “GNU/Linux” is confusing and shouldn’t be said at all… and, I would even agree with them—but not in the usual “let’s just call it Linux” way. See, [...]

I just read a post online answering the question of why one “bothers” with Linux. I have to say that I fall into a mixture of his categories as well. The main reason that I use GNU/Linux is that of freedom. I don’t like being told what I am allowed to do with my computer, [...]

So, this week was not fun. It was a struggle to try to get homework done and keep up with things like watching Ben, because The Plague™ hit us all pretty hard this week. Erica is still sick, and I am still getting over it myself, so I do not feel quite normal just yet. [...]