Where's "sudo make me a sandwich"?
Command-Line-Fu is an archive of the "best UNIX commands on the Web". The "sort by votes" page is a trove of what the community there thinks are the best commands. (via paul)
...is a weblog about the liberal arts 2.0 edited by Jason Kottke since March 1998 (archives). You can read about me and kottke.org here. If you've got questions, concerns, or interesting links, send them along.
Command-Line-Fu is an archive of the "best UNIX commands on the Web". The "sort by votes" page is a trove of what the community there thinks are the best commands. (via paul)
This Friday, in addition to being Friday, is also 1234567890 Day. At 6:31 pm EST on that day, the Unix time will be 1234567890.
Unix time [is] defined as the number of seconds elapsed since midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of January 1, 1970, not counting leap seconds. It is widely used not only on Unix-like operating systems but also in many other computing systems.
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A developer just fixed a bug in the BSD flavor of Unix that had gone undiscovered for 25 years. I guess it finally accrued enough eyeballs to make it shallow.
For a rainy day: learning the Unix shell.
Nerd cartoon: "Sudo make me a sandwich."
Hot topless girls spotted on the beach reading a UNIX book. NSFW.
Misleading article on how to look like a Unix guru. I thought this was going to contain advice on maintaining a long, gray beard and such.
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