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59Perl The Write-Only Scripting Language for UNIX Mac and PC
by Lincoln Armstrong
Programming in Perl has been described as debugging line-noise. So why is it one of the most popular scripting languages? published 11 months ago
81iPhone as eBook?
by Lincoln Armstrong
How difficult would it be to put a web browser and a PDF reader in a wireless tablet-form with a really good display? Well, as it happens, that's been done now. It's called an iPhone. published 15 months ago
67What does HTTP mean?
by Lincoln Armstrong
The reason HTTP is necessary is becuase every different kind of communication on the Internet requires a different protocol. published 14 months ago
59Useful UNIX Shell Programs for the Mac Part Two
by Lincoln Armstrong
1. net - Allows administration of remote Samba and CIFS (Windows network) servers. 2. neqn - Formats equations for ASCII output. 3. od - dumps files in another format such as octal, hexadecimal or binary. ... published 9 months ago
60Emacs The E just might stand for everything
by Lincoln Armstrong
Emacs is a text editor. While in today's computer world of word processors and very sophisticated document editors, Emacs might seem like obsolete terminal-based technology, when it was originally written,... published 9 months ago
67UNIX The Famous Unknown Operating System
by Lincoln Armstrong
The UNIX operating system is probably the most famous set of computer instructions in the world that most people have never heard of. For decades, computers have been quietly running in the background of the... published 8 months ago
69UNIX The Famous Unknown Operating System Part Two
by Lincoln Armstrong
In Part One of this series, we introduced UNIX and the UNIX philosophy, which has influenced the development of both commercial and personal computers for decades and which has led to some of the most valuable... published 8 months ago
55Useful UNIX Shell Programs for the Mac Part One
by Lincoln Armstrong
Photo courtesy Jurvetson1. ar - Combines several files into one file, but does not compress them. 2. gzip - Compresses files using the LZ77 compression. 3. bc - Scriptable calculator. Solve equations... published 9 months ago
54What is Linux?
by Lincoln Armstrong
Linux is an operating system developed by a large number of volunteer programmers who exchange their improvements and contributions to the system via the Internet. It is made available under a community... published 15 months ago
57Linux: An Achievement of Community
by Lincoln Armstrong
What Can I Do with Linux? In the earliest days of widespread computer use, most systems operated on a multi-user basis, meaning that each computer often had dozens if not hundreds of seperate computer... published 15 months ago
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