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| age | 26 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 1 month |
| seen | Mar 25 at 17:27 | |
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Hobbyist - would possibly like to make a career out of it eventually. Currently interested in C++ and Actionscript 3 (in the field of game development). Have had experience with Perl, Python, PHP, a little bit of SQL, etc.
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May 16 |
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What is the exact difference between a 'terminal', a 'shell', a 'tty' and a 'console'? In addition to the comment above: Unix is, by design, a multi-user environment. Generally, people would interact with a unix environment using a thin client - a keyboard and monitor that would send commands over a wire to the unix server. TTY, if I remember correctly, used to stand for TeleTYpe - thus, every user using the system would have to interface through a tty. This is why multiple tty files exist in the filesystem; there's one for each teletype in use (and possibly not in use). |
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Sep 28 |
awarded | Student |
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Sep 11 |
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OpenSolaris vs. Debian for Xen Hypervisor VM server So....Xen is actually an OS, similar to VMware ESX? I thought it was a server application that ran on top of an OS, like VMware server. |
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Sep 10 |
asked | OpenSolaris vs. Debian for Xen Hypervisor VM server |
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Sep 2 |
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What is the benefit of compiling your own linux kernel? @rozcietrzewiacz Knowledge is of the utmost value. Compiling a kernel helps you extend your knowledge. If you don't buy that, then here's this - knowledge is power, and people pay good money to get power, and money holds value in today's world, so by the transitive property.... :P |
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Jun 11 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Jun 11 |
answered | vim editing/switching between multiple files efficiently in large directory structures |
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May 11 |
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How do I clear Bash's cache of paths to executables? @Daniel It's worth adding that, in bash, you can use the command "type command" to find out what type of command it is - if your command is hashed, "type" will tell you. It's also useful to tell whether something's a shell builtin or an alias. |
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Apr 13 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Apr 12 |
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What are your favorite command line features or tricks? @Falmarri The real strength of these commands is that they are shell-agnostic - they work in /bin/sh, not just bash. That doesn't really matter nowadays, but it's something. |
