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bash man

Reading man pages is like eating spinach. Good for you, even if you hate it.
Like all good Macintosh users, I stick with the default bash shell, but one of its default features, I absolutely despise - the [bleeping] beeping when you are lazy and want path completion, even when there are multiple items that match [...]

Posted 18 January 2006 † jayoung § rambles ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged:

There goes the neighborhood

Wow - lookee that - I managed to become a Red Hat Certified Engineer

Posted 12 October 2005 † jayoung § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: ,

For the record…

I’m actually really enjoying the whole Red Hat thing. I found myself actually spec’ing Intel/AMD hardware today for a tiny little desktop machine that I could run linux on personally and play. Though it’s still too expensive to do a new machine to just play (I’ll just buy my parents a [...]

Posted 06 October 2005 † jayoung § rambles ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged:

In the Land of the Linux

So, the occasional problem that has popped up for the few eXtension services that we have running at the moment has made me painfully aware how much I’ve delegated over the last few years when it comes to Linux-based services and infrastructure.
It’s not that I can’t muddle my way through it - and have repeatedly [...]

Posted 03 October 2005 † jayoung § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged:

Pretty Pictures

Well, thanks to a comment from A. J. at UT-Knoxville - I know that my RHEL/Fedora problems under Virtual PC 7.0 are not only my own.
I have gotten Ubuntu installed. Only to have the X Configuration go wacky and produce screens that look more like fractals:

than Gnome desktops. I've played with the /etc/X11/xorg.conf [...]

Posted 22 September 2005 † admin § rambles ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: