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Learning the Command Line
If you’ve been a computer user who actively or even periodically uses Linux for any amount of time there are a bunch of venerable old commands that you’ve certainly heard about. Tools and command line utilities that perfectly illustrate the ethos targeted applications that do one specific thing. With my recent deep dive into Linux…
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So Many Package Managers
Something that took a bit of getting used to this week as I made my full-speed-ahead journey into Linux was understanding just how many package managers there are. I’ve been used to a two-horse race in terms of package management split roughly between “rpm distros” like RedHat or SUSE and “apt/deb distros” that are more…
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The Journey Begins Again
Many years ago I set myself a challenge. I was in the midst of a platform switch from my Mac that I had been using for the better part of a decade. Instead of going back to Windows, which seemed the default choice, I decided it was time to try the move to Linux. After…
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Minecraft as a Hobby
Games today are complicated. Hyper-realistic graphics on ultra-modern rendering engines often requiring the computing power of a small moon just to enjoy the latest “Triple A” game. But one of the world’s best selling games of all time eschews all that in favour of simplicity and a self-directed sandbox game experience: Minecraft. This blocky sandbox…
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Learning Basic Electronics with Arduino
I have seen with interest everything that smart people on the Internet have done with small programmable micro PCs and microcontrollers. While the desire to do ‘something’ with them has always been there I’ve never come up with a project that I wanted to figure out and have thus left learning about this world of…