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by Anthony-G 12y ago
That's a great idea. I've recently started browsing through some of the top-voted questions and answers at http://codereview.stackexchange.com/ to see how coding / scripting can be improved. Edit: After bro
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by Anthony-G 12y ago
A perfect example of Poe's law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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by Anthony-G 12y ago
The `more` command is often provided by `util-linux` package. Ubuntu 12.04: dpkg -S /bin/more /bin/less util-linux: /bin/more less: /bin/less CentOS 5.10: rpm -qf /bin&#x2
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Ubuntu, ownCloud, and a hidden dark side of Linux software repositories(pcworld.com)
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by Anthony-G 12y ago
That would be my understanding as well, e.g. On Microsoft operating systems, the primary shell is Windows Explorer. Congrats to Cloudflare on this write-up. It’s interesting to have actual figures and a breakdown on how Shellshock is being
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by Anthony-G 12y ago
Debian’s Almquist Shell seems like a step in the right direction. While having more features than the `system()` call might need, it’s a more pare-downed shell that retains POSIX compatibility.
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by Anthony-G 12y ago
I hovered over the icon because I had read Peter’s article to the end and my mouse pointer was drawn to the icon, thinking “this looks like it might do something; there’s probably a tool-tip to let me know what” so I agree that it’s a sneak
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by Anthony-G 12y ago
I’ve used pipes for years and had a pretty good understanding of how the system calls of each process in the pipeline interacts with their own `sdin` and `stdout` file descriptors but this article puts it all together really nicely with som
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by Anthony-G 12y ago
As I need a new laptop, I was excited to see this – even more when I followed the link and saw that you could buy one with 3GB RAM and an SSD hard drive. What killed it for me was the screen size: 12 inches is much too small for me. :(
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by Anthony-G 12y ago
Thanks. That's a great tip. I've always yanked the word that I wanted and then used Ctrl-R" to paste it on Vim's command line. This is much better. I'm now off to read "cmdline.txt" (:help Command-line). B
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by Anthony-G 12y ago
The author specifies using upper case for global variables – not for local variables. I’d consider that to be a useful technique and practice it myself. I also agree with minimising the use of global variables in the first place.
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by Anthony-G 12y ago
I usually only have time to check the most upvoted submissions and only clicked the link by accident. I think it’s useful to have an understanding of how OS kernels carry out fundamental tasks such as scheduling and memory management. It’s
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by Anthony-G 13y ago
The preponderance of grocers’ apostrophes was the first thing I noticed. Using both typewriter (') and typographic (’) apostrophes only added to the distraction and I stopped reading after the second paragraph.
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by Anthony-G 13y ago
At first reading, I thought the redacted part was about how to tell if _your_ router was compromised but on closer reading, it looks like it covers routers owned by others that the NSA have cracked but they want to know if the Chinese or an
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by Anthony-G 13y ago
I’ve used strace before to help diagnose issues with buggy software I was using and I thought this was a great article. I just thought I’d let people know that it can be a lot easier to read strace’s output if you read the output log file u