If you're not yet comfortable with writing scripts on Unix and Linux systems, this post might get you off to a healthy start.

Need a jump start on Unix networking? Whether you're working on your home network or setting up systems at work, here are some basic Unix commands and insights that might prove helpful. Once upon a ...

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I'm posting this here because OS X is my main unix system, though I also use some linux stuff (synology and a ubuntu virtual machine in my mac). I've dabbled with unix off and on for more than 20 ...

What Am I Doing? What is Going On? You are learning a different way to interact with a computer, working at the command line. It means typing commands at a prompt - no mouse. Typing only! Why? What is ...

I’ve followed your guide to building a home server with FreeNAS, but I’m not sure what to do with the permissions on my files. Can I just set them all to 777, or is that insecure? This stuff is like ...

OverTheWire is a collection of web-based games that challenge you to perform tasks. One of the best things about the OverTheWire games is that they teach you how to solve problems on your own and do ...

The first article discusses the basics of UNIX printing systems and how they revolve “almost entirely around the PostScript page description language”. Author Stephane Peter then shows how these ...