Remember blogging? Hell, remember magazine publishing? Shouldn't be hard.
You're reading some now.
Both are still around, but they're obsolete—at least relatively. Two cases
in point: my blog
and Linux
Journal.
Doing Big Things
I bought a book a few years back titled, Installing Linux on a
Dead Badger by Lucy Snyder. When I see that book on my bookshelf, it still
makes me chuckle.
If There Was a Problem? Yo, I'll Solve It...
I'm not sure what problem Vanilla Ice solved with his DJ's sick hook, but
thankfully in the Linux world, we solve problems all the time.
It's a Bird! It's a Plane! Nope, It's My Server!
Like most fancy tech terms, "Cloud Computing" has lost its newness, and
it's now
just a commodity we purchase.
Everything Is Data, Data Is Everything
It doesn't take more than a glance at the current headlines to see data
security is a vital part of almost everything we do.
My Sysadmin Is a FOR/NEXT Loop
Technology always has promised to save us time by doing the things we can do more
accurately and with greater efficiency.
Out with the New, and in with the Newer!
There was a show a few years back called, "Extreme Makeover: Home
Edition".
The premise of the show was to find families who needed their house
Things to Do in the Shade
It's summer time here in the northern hemisphere (although it did snow at my house
on May 15, 2016—hopefully Mother Nature is done with that nonsense).
Now We're the Cool Kids!
I wish I could go back and tell eight-year-old me that someday it would be a
point of pride that I wrote BASIC programs on a TI-99/4A connected to a
black-and-
For the Love of Linux
I love my job. I teach Linux by day and write about Linux at night. It's
easy to fall in love with your work when the things you do align with your
passions.