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Category Archives: How-To
Encrypting text at the command line with GnuPG
Storing GnuPG content of any kind (that is, plain text to be encrypted, encrypted text to be decrypted, even public keys from co-respondents) on disk can result in the same kind of vulnerabilities associated with storing any sensitive data on … Continue reading
Posted in Command Line, GNU Privacy Guard, How-To, Open source applications, Open source software, Practical Cryptography, Secure computing, Security/Cryptography
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Managing shell command history in OS X/Linux
One of the many benefits of using the command line shell in OS X or Linux (or any *nix or similar OS) is that the operating system keeps a history of all the commands you use, storing them in a … Continue reading
Using diff
diff is a *nix command that takes two files and compares them, reporting on the differences between them. For example: $ diff foo.bar foo.bar $ When the files are identical, no output is generated (as in this case, comparing a … Continue reading
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Low-tech Magazine
Watch the movie War Games sometime if you have any interest in seeing how things were done back before computers were everywhere. It’s a real time-capsule from 1983, full of modems and rotary telephones and libraries with card catalogs and … Continue reading
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Linux Command Line Gold
There’s nothing like a command line for when you need to get things done. Here are some resources (maybe repeats from years past?) that can give you an edge when you’re looking for a fast and efficient way to do … Continue reading
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Choosing an open source text editor
For many programmers, their first “real” program was some kind of a text editor. For some, it was an exercise in a programming class, or else an exercise in creating their first real, personalized, tool that worked the way the … Continue reading
My Free Logo Adventure
It’s more than just turtles these days with heavy-duty Logo. Continue reading
Posted in Education, How-To, Open Sauce, Open source software
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Good advice about backups
There are many approaches to doing backups. Unfortunately, most of them are some variation of "it’s too much trouble". But even if you are doing backups, this article reminds us that Your backup is only as good as your last … Continue reading
Command line-fu from Foogazi
You only really get better at the command line by using the command line, so it might seem counter-intuitive to write about 10 Linux Commands You Probably Don’t Use. If you don’t use the command line, there’s a lot more … Continue reading
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More Linux Tips from IBM
There are good reasons so many Linux wizards like, no, LOVE the command line. If you know what you’re doing, it can be way faster and easier to use than fiddling around with mouse pointers and windows and so on. … Continue reading
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