Posts Tagged ‘ linux ’
2:00am, finals week, what would be a good use of my time? Oh, yeah, how about writing a little bash script to keep my external hard drive from constantly spinning down? Observe: #!/bin/bash while [ true ] do touch /media/BigEx/.keephdactive sleep 4m done Wow, right? Yeah, it’s been kind of bothering me for months, nothing [ READ MORE ]
Yeah. In case you don’t know, and since my last post was about linux, the ‘official,’ or at least as official as it gets, Linux mascot/logo is Tux, the penguin. Here is a page that provides a brief history of the guy, including the letter to the mailing list where Linus (pronounced leenus, i think) first [ READ MORE ]
GNU (pronounced with a hard G) is the little operating system that could, eventually turning into Linux. I think. Anyway, richard stallman would have everyone refer to the latter as GNU/Linux, an obviously unfeasable proposition. GNU is an acronym for “GNU’s Not Unix,” it’s what’s known as a recursive acronym because as you can tell, the [ READ MORE ]