SysThread

jhm – Tue, 2005 – 08 – 02 07:46

Systhread is a site about operating systems and programming for real operating system and programming enthusiasts, hobbyists, evangelicals and the like. It is derived from previous sites I have operated and had to (for one reason or another) abandon.

Vincent Taal Script Showcase

jhm – Thu, 2005 – 07 – 28 07:06

This guy has some goodies, like scp-resume ...

Advanced Bash Scripting

jhm – Fri, 2005 – 02 – 18 08:43

This book is suitable for classroom use as a general introduction to programming concepts.

cygwin

jhm – Mon, 2005 – 01 – 10 15:43

Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows.
It consists of two parts:

• A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API emulation layer providing substantial Linux API functionality.
• A collection of tools, which provide Linux look and feel.

The Cygwin DLL works with all non-beta, non "release candidate", ix86 32 bit versions of Windows since Windows 95, with the exception of Windows CE.
<opinion>A must have on any Windows system.</opinion>

Command Line

jhm – Wed, 2005 – 01 – 05 10:41

In the Beginning was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson

Term Colors

jhm – Wed, 2004 – 12 – 29 10:44

The original article.

How to restore Windows XP file permissions

jhm – Fri, 2004 – 12 – 24 15:58

Since I don't know my way around windows very well (how odd that I can admit this without hesitation), I usually install cygwin first thing I have to work on Wintel.