Unix

A better way to learn Unix

Sandra Henry-Stocker — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:35:50 +0000

If you are still learning Unix or have any involvement in helping others master the command line, here's the book you have been waiting for. The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction (no starch press, 2012) will take you from 0 to 100 in 36 pain-free chapters.

Fun with shell $ arguments

Sandra Henry-Stocker — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:19:16 +0000

How many special shell $ arguments do you use in your daily work? There may be a lot more of them than you think. Let's look over a bunch of them and examine how they can streamline your scripts.

Usenix: Dartmouth expanding diff, grep Unix tools

IDGNS staff — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:40:11 +0000

With some funding from Google and the U.S. Energy Department, a pair of computer scientists at Dartmouth University are updating the venerable grep and diff Unix command line utilities to handle more complex types of data.

Oracle has a Sun spot

tomhenderson — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:23:23 +0000

Oracle is pushing itself into a corner, a fantastic money-making corner, but a corner nonetheless.

2011 timeline of major high tech awards: Cryptographers, Unix pioneers lead the way

IDGNS staff — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 10:26:56 +0000

The public key encryption scheme developed by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman in the mid-1970s - and influenced by the work of Ralph Merkle - has now made them all pretty darn famous some three-plus decades later: All three have been inducted in 2011 into the Computer History Museum Hall of Fellows and the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Computer de-evolution: Features that lost the evolutionary war

abennett — Thu, 26 May 2011 12:00:06 +0000

Today's tools may be more powerful, but many lack some useful features of their forebears. In the world before popular and simple displaced complex and useful there were such things as clicky keyboards with programmable function keys, text editors would bend to your will, and scrollbars could do more than just drag.

Oracle returns growth to Sun server business: IDC

IDGNS staff — Wed, 25 May 2011 00:37:30 +0000

Oracle logged a small milestone in its Sun acquisition during the first quarter, expanding sales of Sun's server hardware for the first time in three-and-a-half years, IDC reported Tuesday.

IBM reports solid quarter, raises full-year guidance

IDGNS staff — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:42:59 +0000

IBM on Tuesday reported quarterly sales growth across all its major divisions and raised its earnings outlook for the full year, the latest sign that business spending in the IT sector continues to recover.

IBM refreshes Power systems to keep Unix sales edge

IDGNS staff — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:22:12 +0000

IBM has updated its Power systems lineup with higher-density blades and faster processors for its mid-range Power 750 server, looking to keep its momentum in Unix sales as the market inches back to life.

Intel woes: Oracle ditches Itanium, mobility group chief quits

KevinFogarty — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:30:44 +0000

Oracle became the third major developer to abandon high-end Itanium chips just as the guy leading its effort to catch ARM and Nvidia quits.

Security tip: How to set up a chroot jail

ITworld tips — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:37:11 +0000

Using packages such as mod_chroot for use with Apache, or Jailkit, an open-source project with a handful of utilities, can make configuring a chroot jail much more efficient and even automated in some cases. Here are some important things to remember when setting up a chroot jail.

Doesn't anyone love Unix anymore?

KevinFogarty — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:13:34 +0000

Even mainframe sales leaped more than at any other time since IDC's been counting. Unix sales stayed flat.

Cobol comes to the cloud

ITworld staff — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:54:11 +0000

Micro Focus updates Visual Cobol to include access to Azure and the Java Virtual Machine

Mastering Unix commands: 10 how-to videos to get you started

ITworld staff — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:14:44 +0000

Learning Unix commands has never been so much fun.

Oracle highlights Solaris Unix plans

ITworld staff — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 02:15:11 +0000

Solaris 11, due next year, will feature improvements in availability, security, and virtualization.