Now here is a good article (mainly for Unix beginners) that outlines some of the most useful basic Unix commands available.  Read the article here: Unix Command Line Fu (via kresimirbojcic.com). The article covers commands such as: cut, grep, sort, uniq, cat, tac, join, tail, head, etc. It also tells you a bit about how [...]

As of yesterday, Microsoft has posted a preview version of the new Windows 8 operating system. Windows 8 will come with the new Metro interface (similar to Windows Phone 7) and many other enhancements which are focused on touch-gesture input. One important thing to know is that I’ve heard that many users have been able [...]

I’ve just officially released my first Android application! It is an extremely simple, no-frills deals widget. The Newest Deal lite displays the latest deal in a home screen widget. This app has mainly served as a learning tool to get my hands wet with Android development.However, I do plan on releasing a full non-lite version [...]

The following quoted text is an excerpt from the article “Awesome but often unknown Linux commands and tools (anchor.com.au)” which I found really useful! There are quite a few lesser-known Linux/Unix commands that can prove to be extremely useful. This quoted text outlines just a few of these, but there are many more out there… [...]

“The best candidate I have been able to come up with is the C/Unix/Posix use of NUL-terminated text strings. The choice was really simple: Should the C language represent strings as an address + length tuple or just as the address with a magic character (NUL) marking the end? This is a decision that the [...]

I got a chance to play around with a Google CR-48 laptop today. It’s a pretty interesting device but way too barebones for my daily computing needs. I honestly don’t know if it would even be sufficient for me considering how I spend my time just browsing the web. I guess maybe I don’t fully [...]

Have you ever been interested in learning more about operating systems, specifically how they work at a very low level? I’ve always been intrigued by hobbyist OSes and have came across a couple of interesting ones that I thought are worth your time to take a look at. Hobby OSes aren’t necessarily the most useful [...]

I’ve been messing around with rsync lately on one of my linux machines. I’ve been looking for a simple solution that would provide something similar to Apple’s Time Machine software. There are obviously some open source packages that could provide this functionality for me, but I just wanted something really simple that could be automated. [...]

There are only a small handful number of operating systems dominant in today’s computing world. Systems software has been stagnant for nearly the past two decades. A good example mentioned in the source article mentions the excitement behind the Linux operating system. It’s true that there is much excitement and commitment for Linux, but did [...]