Alexios

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My first contact with Unices was in 1990 or 1991, on a friend's machine (he'd connected a few modems to it and we all dialled in). My second one was in 1992, with Minix (the only *nix I could run on my 286 box). My third one was Linux in November 1993 (Linux 0.99.12, SLS distribution), and I haven't looked back since. These days, I make my living deploying and tending *nix boxen.

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Apr 18	comment	Why should 'Character Classes' be preferred over 'Character Ranges' In Shell (Bash)? @TheoneManis because they may behave in unexpected ways if you're using Unicode. More unexpected than character ranges, that is. Unless you're using character ranges with Unicode codepoints greater than U+007F, I suppose. It may be down to the author's personal preference (the perceived lesser of two evils by personal experience).
Apr 17	answered	Why should 'Character Classes' be preferred over 'Character Ranges' In Shell (Bash)?
Apr 17	comment	Why do some Linux files have a 'd' suffix? Linguistically, daemons and demons are the same thing and renderings of the same word. ‘Dæmon’ is the Greek word for a minor deity. After christianity started using Greek, the word got repurposed to mean evil pagan deities, and then just lost all non-negative connotations and eventually got simplified to demon. It's still the same word in German, though: Dämon (Daemon).
Apr 16	revised	How to distinguish input from different keyboards? added 191 characters in body
Apr 15	answered	How to distinguish input from different keyboards?
Mar 31	comment	Emacs complains: font 'serif 10' is not defined Does your `~/.emacs` make reference to `serif 10`? Which version of Emacs are you using?
Mar 31	comment	ifconfig: more different device items than physical NICs/sockets The byte counts also depend on when each interface was added to the bridge. I wouldn't trust them for what you're trying to do, unless you have a very carefully controlled environment and know the timeline of events.
Mar 31	comment	ifconfig: more different device items than physical NICs/sockets Are there VLANs configured for any of the interfaces? Try `grep VID /proc/net/vlan/*` to see if that's the case, and what VLAN IDs are in use.
Mar 25	comment	What filesystem offers best protection for securing data against corruption due to power loss? Indeed. Like I wrote, there aren't any guarantees. Any time you're writing data, you could have corruption. People at electronics.stackexchange.com have been playing around with supercapacitors and brown-out detection where the embedded system gets a notification the power's out, and still gets enough juice to abort writes. Maybe. :) It's all a matter of how likely you think the potential danger is, and how much money/effort you want to spend to remove the issue at hand (and start considering the next one).
Mar 25	comment	How can i check for existence of color in my linux box? Since `tput` only checks the $TERM variable, it'll fail to detect if using the program in a pipeline. Standard practice tends to be to check if `stdout` is a TTY as well: `tty(1)` is your friend. Something like `if tty >/dev/null 2>/dev/null && [[ $(tput colors) -ge 8 ]]; then ...` would work well.
Mar 25	answered	What filesystem offers best protection for securing data against corruption due to power loss?
Jan 12	comment	What's the difference between these ways of accessing the shell? @BatchyX: thanks, I was about to write that. I've recently been considering how ‘terminal’ has lost its meaning these days.
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Oct 13	comment	How to fix a terminal after a binary file has been dumped inside it? In some cases, `reset` has been known not to solve this. `echo -e '\017'` can help there.
Oct 13	comment	KWin Present Window effect rendered window preview pretty dark Which effect is this exactly? (you can find out in System Settings → Desktop Effects → All Effects tab)
Oct 13	comment	Open url and fill form automatically With appropriate encryption, your browser (depending on the browser) may have better encryption and security for stored forms than the plaintext script you'll be writing to pre-fill the forms.
Oct 8	comment	How to exit bash history search mode? @lornix: I like to have visual feedback of Ctrl-C. Just imagine the psychological impact of pressing Ctrl-C before submitting a command like `rm -rf /` (extreme example), going away, then coming back to the terminal. There's practical joke potential in this, of course.
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