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Unix Scores Well On Reliability
[2008-08-20] A recent online survey has found that all versions of Unix are achieving 99.9 percent reliability according to the Yankee Group.
SCO Must Pay $2.55 Million In Unix Kerfuffle
[2008-07-30] It's too bad every frivolous lawsuit doesn't wind up following this pattern. The SCO Group, which was originally pursuing Novell, has been ordered to pay the company $2.55 million for "unjust enrichment, breach of fiduciary duty, and conversion."
Beaten: Another Ridiculously Old Unix Bug
[2008-07-11] Not too long ago, we brought you news of a 25-year-old Unix flaw getting fixed. This seemed remarkable enough, only now, there's word that a 33-year-old problem has been identified and resolved.
Unix Group Fights Pro-OOXML Ruling
[2008-06-20] A UK High Court judge sees no problems with having Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) as an international standard, and the UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group (UKUUG) isn't at all happy about this. As a result, UKUUG is doing a bit of fundraising.
Ancient BSD Unix Bug Fixed
[2008-05-16] A Unix developer recently found and fixed what was probably the world's oldest bug, and we don't mean that in the amber-encased insect sense. Instead, a 25-year-old flaw in Berkeley Software Distribution came to light.
IBM Announces Record-Setting UNIX Server
[2008-04-10] You can almost imagine someone calling ladies and gentlemen, along with boys and girls of all ages, to gather 'round; IBM recently showed off a new supercomputer and what the company called "the world's fastest UNIX server."
SCO's McBride Facing The Exit
[2008-03-05] Bankruptcy and the subsequent reorganization at SCO will mean the end of the CEO run for Darl McBride.
Trying to Recover SCO Medical Manager
[2008-01-29] Recently I went out to try to recover a SCO system running Medical Manager.
Any Hope for SCO?
[2008-01-04] SCO's stock price sank and sank and recently they've been delisted: you can't buy their stock on NASDAQ anymore (though it's hard to imagine why you would want to - you'd need a lot of faith and hope to be chasing this rabbit!).
Another SCO Unix Filepro System Bites the Dust
[2007-12-11] I spent most of yesterday on the phone helping another consultant port a SCO Unix Filepro system over to Linux.
Who Locked that File?
[2007-11-19] I can't even imagine how many times I've heard someone complain about a locked file.
SCO Bumbles Along
[2007-11-15] I now, I know: don't kick a man when he's down. Poor SCO doesn't have much time left on this earth, and here I am complaining about their stuff.. oh well, I'm a horrible person and that's just the way it is.
Quest & PassGo Team up on Unix Identity Management Products
[2007-10-16] Quest Software and PassGo Technologies have entered into an OEM agreement to globally distribute two products for managing and auditing privileged access to Unix systems.
Is There Always a Better Way?
[2007-09-25] I happened upon a recent Linux-Watch article about Dell's Dynamic Kernel Module Support.
SCO Goes Bankrupt
[2007-09-18] No great surprise...
Linux and Non-compete Agreements?
[2007-07-31] There seems to be a lot of discussion about whether Project Indiana at openSolairs is a Linux clone or not.
How Do I Change my PS1 Command Prompt in Bash?
[2007-07-17] I have read about 15 chapters of your book (Teach Yourself UNIX in 24 Hours) so far. We are using vi. On the PS1 command, how do I see what is in it so I can add to it and not change what is already there? We are using bash.
Bug in Shell Script Using awk to Read /etc/passwd?
[2007-06-29] In your book Wicked Cool Shell Scripts, on p. 115, Script #40 Reporting Disk Hogs, on the 8th line the second part of the line reads:
Case Study: Managing a Worldwide Print Infrastructure from a Central Location
[2007-06-19] Company - This US based company is one of the world's largest manufacturers of automotive parts and sub-assemblies in the world.
Linux Software RAID vs. Hardware RAID
[2007-03-13] Over the years, I've configured and happily used Linux Software RAID on numerous servers. It has proven to be amazingly resilient and quite stable.
Configuring a Linux NTP Server
[2007-02-13] Network Time Protocol (NTP) provides algorithms and defines messages for the synchronisation of time clients to an accurate time reference.
Howto Backup your Mac incrementally over SSH
[2007-01-30] Do you have access to a shell account on a unix server with some spare space? If so it's pretty easy to incrementally backup your files securely with SSH.
Background Tasks (Why?)
[2007-01-11] A comp.unix.shell newsgroup post asked a neophyte question about how to run a script in the background.
GoboLinux - A Breath of Fresh Air?
[2006-12-27] My very first reaction to GoboLinux was negative. The underlying idea of taming the Unix/Linux file system hierarchy with symbolic links isn't new: heck, SCO did that way back with their 3.2v4.0 release, and for exactly the same reasons (see the Software Storage Objects- SSO section at this link).
The Influence of Unix on NT
[2006-12-11] For several years now I've been looking for something Bill Gates said. Unfortunately I had misremembered the actual words, and every time I found someone who thought they remembered it, they had the wrong words too and I'd come up dry yet again.
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