AmControl AmControl is a PythonLanguage class for controlling an AmandaBackup server. At present, it can: Launch a backup Flush the remnants of a previous backup ...
Antonym a Perl pseudonym tool Many people use anonymous pseudonyms to send and receive mail that cannot be traced to them. This program is for people who know what ...
Security is more than a simple checklist you can follow it's a state of mind. There are, however, a few comparitively easy steps you can take to greatly decrease ...
I wrote the birth announcement for my daughter, Ariana, in the Python ProgrammingLanguage for the amusement of my Computing.ComputerGeek friends. Note that this is ...
A boundary number is a point at which a computer program either reaches the limits of its capabilities, or starts behaving strangely. For example, the YearTwoThousand ...
The name "geek" is used in high-tech circles to describe someone who cares a great deal about the subjects they're interested in, and who go to great lengths to learn ...
ComputerScience is a descendant of formal mathematics involving the scientific analysis of computer software and hardware systems. Many ComputerGeeks were introduced ...
The Daycos Software Distribution Note: Right now, this text is identical to the included README file. I wanted to get this online ASAP and this was the quickest way ...
I use DebianGnuLinux as the main Computing.OperatingSystem on my WorkStation. My KernelConfiguration is a little bit nonstandard, though, as I use KernelPatches and ...
DependencyHell is the condition that SystemAdministrators of many computer system face often. It is most easily defined by illustration: Admin wants to upgrade package ...
Digital Equipment Corporation (also known as DEC or Digital) In 1995 merged with CompaqComputerCorporation, sold out its terminal business to SandRiver, its AlphaCpu ...
The geekiest of the geeks. Author of TheArtOfComputerProgramming and the TeX typesetting language. Widely popularized ComputerScience as a formal discipline. Link ...
Each user's personal configuration file for ImWheel is called .imwheelrc and is stored in their HomeDirectory. The syntax of this file can seem a little confusing ...
For the benefit of the Computing.SlashDot crowd. See also DotZshRc. #!/bin/zsh # Gentoo if uname a grep /dev/null i gentoo; then source /etc/zsh/zprofile SYS IS GENTOO ...
For the benefit of the SlashDot crowd. Note that ZeeShell first interprets DotZshEnv at startup, and I've put some of my shell's important functionality in there. ...
I just bought a MicroSoft TrackBall Optical for use with my Debian/unstable system. Installation was a breeze I just plugged it in to the USB port and it instantly ...
An inode is a FileSystem entry that links the name and attributes of a file to the file's actual contents. Therefore, the number of inodes used (as reported by certain ...
FireBird is the Computing.OpenSource version of Computing.InterBase. Computing.InterBase sucks most heartily. FireBird sucks a little less; at least you can compile ...
So, you want to convert some FoxPro tables to PostgreSQL, huh? Here's how you do it: 1. Get my patched version of the Xbase library from http://subwiki.honeypot.net ...
My WebPlayer now has: Hitachi DK23BA-10 10GB hard drive Belkin F5D5050 10/100 USB ethernet adapter I installed several OperatingSystems on the little computer before ...
ImWheel is a program that runs alongside an XWindowSystem server that intercepts mouse button input events and translates them into a configurable sequence of keyboard ...
I posted the following comment to Computing.SlashDot one day. I think it pretty well sums up my feelings for InterBase: My company is currently trying to decide between ...
The InterNet (note Wiki caps usually Internet) is a big-ass network of computers of various kinds, including those running GnuLinux, Freebsd.FreeBSD, Computing.OpenBSD ...
Most servers have many processes loaded in memory at any given time. Most, however, are sitting idle and waiting for an event to occur (such as an incoming network ...
My wife (JenniferStrauser) and I recently brought home an interesting visitor: a blueberry Jennifer currently uses a computer running Freebsd.FreeBSD, but she really ...
MicroSoft is a computing product manufacturer based in a small town in the mostly-empty Pacific Northwest. They are known for their well-regarded line of inexpensive ...
OpenBSD is an flavor BerkeleyStandardDistribution variant of Specifically, it was the result of a fork by TheoDeRaadt from NetBSD. Its emphasis in on ComputerSecurity ...
You're probably used to using ProprietarySoftware. That means that most of the programs you download are owned by one particular person or company, and that they retain ...
An OperatingSystem is a collection of SoftWare on a computer that controls how the computer works. Among other things, the OS handles communication between programs ...
These are the steps to enable SASL and TLS on Postfix on my laptop: Put the SASL passwd in /usr/local/etc/postfix/sasl passwd: kanga.honeypot.net woozle: whatever ...
Richard M. Stallman (commonly known as "RMS") started the FreeSoftwareFoundation (http://www.fsf.org/). As a software developer, he wrote the world's most powerful ...
I wanted to rip DVDs on my DebianGnuLinux workstation and it was enough of a hassle that I thought I'd document it for posterity. A quick note My goal is to make backup ...
A process is "runnable" if it would be using the CPU if it were available. This is indicated by the code "R" in a PsListing. Main.KirkStrauser 20 Mar 2003
I prefer SendMail to QmaiL, ExIm, or PostFix, for one main reason: it's been around forever, so everybody knows how to use it pretty well, and it's been more thoroughly ...
"SETI" means "Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence". SetiAtHome is a program you can download from http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ that will process information ...
Computers use BinaryArithmetic to store and process numbers. Given an n-bit (BinaryDigit) number, if a computer needs to represent negative numbers, it may use one ...
Slashdot is one of the premier news sites for serious geeks. Websites prominently featured on its front page often experience something called the "Slashdot Effect ...
Computers are not intelligent machines. They have to be told exactly how to behave by a set of explicit, step-by-step instructions. These instructions are typically ...
A TarBall is a collection of files store in a format readable and writeable by tar ( T ape AR chiver), and often compressed afterward with GnuZip or BziP. It is the ...
2,147,483,647 is a BoundaryNumber in computing. It is half of FourBillion, minus one. In other words, it is the largest 32-bit SignedNumber. Main.KirkStrauser 20 ...
I've used serveral graphical and text-based email clients for Unix systems, and periodically re-visit some of them to see what changes and updates have been made. ...
Computers use BinaryArithmetic to store and process numbers. Given an n-bit (BinaryDigit) number, a computer may represent 2^n possible values, ranging from 0 to ...
All About Computers Or, at least, what can be fit into a few web pages. This web is for all topics related to computers, computing, programming projects, the Internet ...
This is a subscription service to be automatically notified by e-mail when topics change in this Computing web. This is a convenient service, so you do not have to ...
Subwiki.Computing Web Preferences The following settings are web preferences of the Subwiki.Computing web. These preferences overwrite the site-level preferences ...
Subwiki's Computing web SCRIPTURL /view SCRIPTSUFFIX /Computing The Computing web of TWiki. TWiki is a Web-Based Collaboration Platform for the Corporate World. INCLUDE ...
Statistics for Computing Web Month: Topic views: Topic saves: File uploads: Most popular topic views: Top contributors for topic save and uploads: Nov 2008 2019 0 ...
I give away the software I write. A lot of people think that this is insane, but I see it at the only rational approach to general software development. Practicality ...
The main configuration file for the XWindowSystem is typically found in /etc/X11 . On the older XfreE86, it is usually called XF86Config or XF86Config-4 . With the ...
XModMap (or xmodmap ) is a utility that can be used to modify the keyboard and mouse modifier tables of an XWindowSystem. Keyboard Mapping The keyboard modifier maps ...