To celebrate the new year I wanted to liberate my DevTerm running Rasbian from all things Raspbian and make it a useful portable workstation. Bye bye SysD! [...]

In an age where computing devices give outsiders unprecedented control over our lives, we the users need a "bill of rights" to protect us from them [...]

These days all the documentation on the iNet is for SystemD. Since I have always appreciated SysV init I thought I better write about its use [...]

This is a cheat sheet of useful process management commands in the Linux environment: ps, pgrep, kill, pidof, killall, top, htop, lsof, /proc and contents [...]

I've been looking for a new CPU I could fall in love with at the machine code level. But the new RISC-V has proven not to be it. I guess its full ARM... [...]

As a UNIX admin its often required that certain scripts only allow a single simultogetherous instance to run. For me this most often happens with backups [...]

My notes on weird tech stuff I've run across. [...]

The base edition of Pi Shack BASIC (psBASIC) is available for free download. A quick, simple and interactive way of manipulating hardware and automating [...]

C++ has some really odd habits. The constructor and destructor aspect of the system is chalk full of land-mines and booby-traps. [...]

Download the Computer Geek's Calculator for the CHIP or PocketCHIP computers. Includes lots of number storage, boolean math operations, IPv4, IPv6, float.. [...]