L is for Linux When you’re writing for a large audience–you are a large audience, aren’t you?–you can’t predict what level of knowledge your readers have, so you have to pick a point to start, and then hope you won’t either overwhelm the less knowledgeable, or bore to death the experienced. With a book this […]
L is for Linux Before continuing the Survival tutorials, you’ll need some basic Unix commands. I’ve recovered the following, which provides a good intro to most of the commands you’ll need, from the now defunct weblog, Linux for Poets. Once upon a time Unix used to be for geeks only – the platform of choice […]
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Zero to sixty in ten seconds
Mr. Allan Moult, my friend as well as my boss at Leatherwood Online is celebrating an important birthday tomorrow, tomorrow in this case being May 8th. Allan is a journalist, photographer, a writer, an editor, and a very interesting person who has traveled more than most people I know. He is also a tireless defender of the natural […]
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Points to ponder
Joi Ito pointed to the article from the Telegraph, which interviews the mother of one of the women involved with the photos of the torture of the Iraqi prisoners. First: Why the focus on the women soldiers? Why not the men? Or both? Second: Remember when you read this article that the folks in New York, Boston, and San […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve heard from several people interested in moving to an open source weblogging tool like WordPress or Textpattern, but they’re concerned about having to manipulate PHP code in order to modify the templates or make the changes to the tool to incorporate modifications some of us have created. What happens, then, is these […]