Setting the 'hardstatus' and 'caption' lines in GNU screen's configuration.
read moreGNU Screen, Part 2
Slightly more advanced 'screen' commands, enough to make screen really useful.
read moreGNU Screen Basics
Shell session multiplexing sounds weird, works great. This is an intro to the GNU 'screen' program.
read moreCreatron Raspberry Pi RTC Device
Creatron has Real-Time Clock units for the Raspberry Pi ... but the documentation is lacking. A basic walk-through.
read more'Linux Utilities Cookbook' - Book Review
A good introduction to a wide array of Linux utilities (mostly command line).
read moreExploding Sparse Files - Your Lesson For the Day
Here's a conundrum: how does a 100GiB file fit on a 12GiB partition? When it's actually 33MiB. Sort of. Sparse files are weird.
read moreFake Xdmx
How to run your window manager and all your applications off another computer while sharing the screen ... how to fake Xdmx now that it's dead.
read moreXdmx - Failure (again)
Xdmx sounds like a great way to use a laptop or RPi to control more monitors to attach to your primary computer - but the software is a zombie, compiled but completely broken.
read moreSSH - Handshakes and Fingerprinting
The inconvenience of (SSH) security, and how to verify your server fingerprints.
read moreLinux: System Diagnostics
How to find out what devices are attached to the computer you're sitting in front of.
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