Firefox 3.0.7 is available for Solaris according to BlogFinger.
Does anyone remember Internet Explorer and Outlook Express on Solaris Sparc around 1998 or so? It was neat running IE on a Sparc workstation and OE was great for reading USENET. It’s too bad Microsoft discontinued support for it. Fortunately, we now have a great browser called [...]
Author Archives: theunixguy
Firefox 3.0.7 Available
March 5, 2009 – 5:35 pm
Linux.com domain sold
March 5, 2009 – 5:25 pm
Computer world reports that the domain Linux.com has been sold by SourceForge to the Linux Foundation. The Linux Foundation has posted a press release with their intentions.
I’m still kicking myself for not going domain-registering-overboard back in the early 90’s registering all the big company domains before the big companies did.
Back in those days you could [...]
Xfce 4.6 has some nice new features
March 5, 2009 – 5:15 pm
Xfce, a popular lightweight desktop environment, has some nice new features in version 4.6 writes Arstechnica.
I’ve used Xfce many times — usually with VNC as the lightweight environment works much better over VNC than other “heavy” environments.
COTD: tee - read from standard input and write to standard output and file
March 3, 2009 – 10:04 pm
Today’s COTD is the “tee” command.
Have you ever wanted to redirect the output of a script or program to a file, but be able to view it right away? Without putting the file in the background, and then tailing the file?
The tee command allows you to do just that.
Here is how we could use [...]
COTD: touch - change file timestamps
March 2, 2009 – 5:31 am
Todays COTD (Command Of The Day) is the “touch” command.
The touch command is used to update the access and modification times of files. However, I see it more commonly used to create a new file. There are many times when you want to create a new file, but not actually put anything in it. For [...]
COTD: netstat - Print network connections, routing tables, interface statistics, masquerade connections, and multicast memberships
February 28, 2009 – 11:27 am
The COTD for today is the netstat command.
The netstat command prints network connections, routing tables, interface statistics, and a bunch of other goodies that are helpful in managing any UNIX box.
One of the common uses of netstat is to show the systems routing table. This is done by the “netstat -r” command.
$ netstat -nr
Kernel IP [...]
COTD - Command Of The Day
February 28, 2009 – 11:20 am
Welcome to COTD. Each day I am going to pick a UNIX command and spend a little time sharing a little bit about that command. I am going to call this “COTD” for “Command Of The Day”.
I may not get into every possible use of the selected command, but I am hoping to raise some [...]
Getting rid of all your serial consoles
February 27, 2009 – 4:52 pm
Get rid of most of your serial terminals with a serial console server.
One-Third of Dell Netbooks running Linux
February 24, 2009 – 12:10 pm
Laptop Magazine reports that one third of Dell’s Inspiron Mini 9s that have been sold are running Linux. I’m still up in the air about what netbook I’m going to go with — but it will definitely be running Linux/UNIX.
I’d really like to see a Dell Latitude line of netbooks. Inspiron, to me, just screams [...]