When I started working with personal computers in the early / mid 70’s, there was no such thing as an operating system. Bill Gates was probably a nerd in grade school. Woz and Jobs were also just two kids. Everything in personal computing was programmed in machine code binary, octal, and hex. A box to contain the computer had not even been necessary or invented. A person had to acquire (purchase) all the separate physical...
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Growing Pains
I am really taking my bruises while hacking on my Amazon Cloud web server. But I like the abuse. I must be a cyber masochist. My cloud is called the Amazon Web Service (AWS). They provide their smallest server to hackers like me, with a first time free one year trial to play with their toys. It’s not REALLY a toy, but a “for real” cloud server. Actually as good as any server I would...
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Oh no! What have I done to myself? I have to clean out the cobwebs in my skull and make room for more brains. I am going to get back into my brain shell and be born again, or is it Bourne again… I have to refresh myself in using the BASH (Bourne Again SHell) commands that are used to communicate with Linux and Unix. I need BASH commands but will actually use another protocol...
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I am trying to make a decision on computer operating systems. I am writing this on Sandbox, my Linux computer and I am using LibreOffice Writer to compose this post. This system and combination works perfectly for this purpose and many other uses. The best part being it is totally free. The only real draw back is there is very little high powered commercial software applications written for Linux. This is because of it’s very...
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