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UEmacs is the editor/ide that is said to be the work and choice of Linus Torvalds (gnu linux kernel, THANK YOU FOR THE GNU LINUX KERNEL! THANKS!, THANKS MR STALLMAN FOR GCC THANKS! THANKS TO ALL INVOLVED!) UEmacs hostnamectl; # […]

cool apt-get install fortune cowsay; # will have to be installed first then you can let your dinosaur speak 😀  /usr/games/cowsay -f stegosaurus “Hello World”  _____________ < Hello World >  ————- \                             .       .  \                           / `.   .’ ”   […]

download: “GNU Emacs Reference Card” aka EMACS_CHEAT_SHEED_Hotkeys_Shortcuts_refcard.pdf Alt+key = emacs’s M-key (META or ALT or EDIT key) Ctrl+key = emacs’s C-key C-<chr> means hold the CONTROL key while typing the character <chr> Thus, C-f would be: hold the CONTROL key […]

Debian running on ISS “pretty sure that no Windows systems are being used anymore. All/most laptops used by the astronauts have a Linux based operating systems (Debian)” (src: space.stackexchange.com) 2007: Debian: Anatomy of An Open Source Project WARNING! SHOCKING! NO […]

is VLC still the currently BEST music player for GNU Linux? vlc is excellent for simplicity, compatibility (best format compatibility ever seen, it has some stuttering when skipping forward or backward with mp4 x264 files, mplayer might still be the […]

ok let’s put it like this Mr Torvalds and Mr Stallman like their EMacs. Vim has grown into a very big program, that will contain errors (every program does and only god and nobody are perfect) But it at least […]

what’s in the (Debian apt) repo concerning RSS (News) Feeds? apt search rss … then manually filtered. akregator/stable 4:20.08.3-1 amd64 RSS/Atom feed aggregator cairo-dock-rssreader-plug-in/stable 3.4.1+git20201022.a0d3415c-1 amd64 RSS Reader plug-in for Cairo-dock chromium-tt-rss-notifier/stable 0.5.2-2.1 all Chromium extension providing toolbar button for […]

short story: phase it out So it finally happened, Oracle wants to cash in on it’s $7.4 Billion investment it made in 2009. The non-Open-Source non-GPL non-Free-Software-coffee has officially gone sour. One can just pray, that this will be a […]

Update: 2020-02 added “geany” is there an ideal IDE for every task? Nope. Of course just as programming languages every IDE has their pros and cons. (build for a specific purpose? might serve other purposes also) There is not a […]

update: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2020mca.php Warning! 645 votes does not make for a complete survey! X-D Debian is a great great great GNU Linux distribution (the basis of Ubuntu and MINT). Many THANKS! TO ALL INVOLVED! It is the effort of a lot […]

Warning! This is probably not THE best solution and rather a dirty hack. Updates only should come via yum package manager and official repositories. After update, Telegram stops working. first thing one does is open up a terminal, and try […]

is Rust safer than C/C++? “show me the src” https://github.com/rust-lang https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/master/src DebConf 2019: Why would a python programmer learn rust when there are no jobs in it https://ytpak.net/watch?v=IYLf8lUqR40 “This means no matter what language you use, the only safe way […]

per default ls only shows time in hh:mm, if you also need hh:mm:ss you can use: –full-time # show file and folder dates also in milliseconds ls –full-time # the manual says # –full-time is equal to -l –time-style=full-iso # […]

don’t be evil “Google controls about 62% of mobile browsers, 69% of desktop browsers, and the operating systems on 71% of mobile devices in the world. 92% of internet searches go through Google and 73% of American adults use YouTube. […]

aim: in software development, step debugging is a very nice way to look at your code and see if it does what it should. i wondered, if such a thing exists for shell / bash scripts. develop shell bash scripts […]

…and it is even FAST! hardware support: 250 mainboards supported in 2012! Chromebook (IvyBridge / Thinkpad X60 / Thinkpad T 60 It comes with OpenBoot = also good and a direct rival to Intel’s EFI adoption. (checkout: https://www.coreboot.org/, coreboot interview: […]

warning: this only works if you have a gui/gnome installed. thanks goes to this superb tutorial with screenshots: http://xmodulo.com/debug-program-nemiver-debugger.html For Debian based distributions, it should be pretty straightforward: apt-get install nemiver; # Debian and Ubuntu pacman -S nemiver; # For […]

naming why is a shell called a shell? after all it’s just a program 😀 call it program then 😀 kernel = core, shell = surrounding the core, interaction with the core. a shell is also a runtime-environment – a […]

in general programs = processes = tasks = job less is more (security) run as little software as you absolutely need – uninstall/disable all services you don’t need. less software = less lines of mistaken code = less security flaws. […]

these commands are equally valid, both commands add “content” to the end of file – if file does not exists it will be created. ls -l . /ect > listing.txt #send the output from ls -l to a file called […]

rpm is a powerful Package Manager for Red Hat, Suse and Fedora Linux. It can be used to build, install, query, verify, update, and remove/erase individual software packages. A Package consists of an archive of files, and package information, including […]

in general unfortunately the minimum time-unit usable with at is minutes – no seconds or milliseconds. timing non-repetative tasks tasks that are just run once but at a certain time or date at ist not installed per default under centos/redhat, […]

“The Unix Philosophy in One Lesson” “All the philosophy really boils down to one iron law, the hallowed ‘KISS principle’ of master engineers everywhere:” “Keep It Simple, Stupid” or “Keep It Super Simple” (less offensive) The Unix philosophy emphasizes building […]

firewall & pinguin: iptables where do thou go? it is said that when using “ip-sets” iptables and nftables achieve almost same performance (amounts of ips possible to block, without server becoming slow/unresponsive) Redhat and nftables on DDoS “so the only […]

https://dwaves.de/2014/11/24/how-nsa-surveillance-free-is-mozilla-firefox-and-thunderbird-landuke-says-they-are-fucking-capitalists/ Checkout: IceCat Ok, let’s put this straigt. Mozilla HAD (!!!) a contract with Google from 2012 – 2014 that showered them with money – which they probably got a lot of shitstorms, and online-bashing. But even worse: Google stole […]

update: 2018.04 PaleMoon archive Server HACKED! “A malicious party gained access to the at the time Windows-based archive server” (src) oh gosh! ? GO USE CENTOS DEBIAN AND LATEST KERNEL NOW! “malware dropper tracked by ESET as Win32/ClipBanker.DY” (steals bitcoins) […]

vim is one of the greatest terminal based editors that is out there (though Stallman & Linus prefer Emacs) it is capable of editing pretty large files, that would make other gui based editors crash # Find each occurrence of […]

who/what to trust in 2022? it’s hard… “A February 2020 research report published by the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin tested six browsers and deemed Brave to be the most private of them, in terms […]

tested on: Linux DebianGiada 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt7-1 (2015-03-01) x86_64 GNU/Linux BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN REMOVING PACKAGES! YOUR SYSTEM COULD BREAK! # purge = remove config files # remove = keep config files # this is pretty save apt-get […]