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This article describes building an internal FreeBSD Update Server. Experienced users or administrators are often responsible for several machines or environments. They understand the difficult demands and challenges of maintaining such an infrastructu…

One of the standards that has become normal in the US federal sector is the requirement that all mobile devices, such as laptops, have encrypted drives. This was a direct result of a number of …

I Super-accurate computer clock created
A free pies of software that allows computers to keep phenomenally accurate time has been developed by researchers in Melbourne. The software, called RADclock, should improve everything from Skype conversations t…

Recently I wrote about controlling konsole with dbus.
As I’ve begun to use that script for setting up my konsoles
I, like others, have discovered that the tab title that
you set with dbus doesn’t stick. This short note shows
you a workaround to make your tab titles stay put. more>>

I’ve been taking a Java programming course this semester at the local
technical college, which has been a wonderful learning experience. The
programming course uses the Eclipse 3.5.1 IDE along with the Java
Development Toolkit for programming in Java. In addition to using Eclipse,
I use Dropbox to save the source code and
preferences from my home install of Eclipse, eliminating the need to carry a
USB key or email/transfer the files through any other method. This Dropbox
storage method also ensures that every machine I use has the latest version
of source code files with minimal interaction and fuss on my part. more>>

When grep and sed aren’t enough, gawk may provide
the extra horsepower that you need.
The following tip contains a sampling of some of the
things one might do with gawk.
more>>

Working on a little script the other day I had the need to determine
if the input to the script was coming from a pipe or from the terminal.
Seems like a simple enough thing to determine but nothing jumped immediately
to mind and a quick internet search didn’t help much either.
After a bit of pondering I came up with two solutions: the stat command
and using information from the proc file system. more>>