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| bio | website | stratigery.com |
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| location | Denver, CO | |
| age | 52 | |
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My first computer was a Radio Shack Color Computer 3 - 6809-based, running OS-9 Level II. It could run 32 processes at once, due to bank-switching a whole 1 Meg of memory.
After that, I got an AT&T 3b2, also known as a Convergent Safari. This was a Motorola 68010-based desktop.
Then, I graduated to a NeXT black&white "slab". I bought a used SPARCStation IPC in 1995, and put NetBSD 0.9 on it.
I've been using Linux since 1997, starting with a DEC Alpha-based UDB, and downgrading to a x86 PC in 2002.
I run Slackware and Arch linux.
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Jul 14 |
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Which Linux distro resembles HP-UX? I'll second this: HP-UX resembles nothing else. It's kind of a dinosaur, in that it still has Bell Labs "make", and other utilities, not BSD or GNU. It has a lot of system admin peculiarities, because HP had a bad, bad case of "Not Invented Here". It's reminiscent of the old Proprietary Unixes, SunOS, Dynix, Hep/ux, Mt Xinu, DGUX, etc etc. Also, the PA-RISC hardware that HP-UX runs on is really odd: it has segments registers, the stack grows up, the heap grows down. Ickk. |
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Jul 13 |
answered | A command used in another command |
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Jul 13 |
answered | Linux Kernel logical address space organisation |
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Jul 11 |
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combine text files column-wise Traditionally "tabstops" hit every 8 spaces. "123TABabc" would get printed out with the 'a' character 8 character-widths from the start of the line. Setting it to 24 would put the 'a' at 24 char widths from the start of the line. |
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Jul 11 |
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combine text files column-wise That last example, with misalignment, is a doozy. I can duplicate it on Arch linux, pr (GNU coreutils) 8.12. I can't duplicate it on an elderly Slackware (11.0) I also have around: pr (GNU coreutils) 5.97. The problem is with the '-' character, and it's in pr, not paste. |
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Jul 11 |
answered | combine text files column-wise |
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Jul 11 |
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permission denied when executing a binary Correct a horrible mental error that almost ruins my answer. |
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Jul 10 |
answered | permission denied when executing a binary |
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Jul 9 |
answered | Weird executabe behaviour |
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Jul 8 |
answered | What is the significance of single and double quotes in environment variables? |
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Jul 6 |
answered | How do I find the X window ID under the mouse pointer in bash? |
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Jul 5 |
answered | How can I get mod_perl running in Arch Linux? |
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Jul 5 |
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How does bash continue to work correctly when you move its working directory? I tried what you describe with a plain C program that does a chdir(2) and a pause(3). You can still do things like rmdir the working directory. So merely having a working directory doesn't prevent name changes or even deletion of the working directory. I do a lot of "cd $PWD" commands to reconcile what zsh thinks vs where it is because of that. |
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Jul 5 |
answered | How does bash continue to work correctly when you move its working directory? |
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Jun 30 |
answered | How to dump a man page? |
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Jun 29 |
answered | IO redirection and the head command |
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Jun 27 |
answered | Why do I get a 'conformability error' when I attempt to convert water in GNU units? |
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Jun 27 |
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Console tool to test internet bandwidth If you don't have two machines, ttcp is worthless. It just sends a specified number of bytes over TCP or UDP as fast as it cam, and reports how long it took. Too simple, like I wrote above. |
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Jun 27 |
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Console tool to test internet bandwidth Add ttcp usage example. |
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Jun 27 |
answered | Console tool to test internet bandwidth |
