Programmers

Have you ever wanted to search the Web while typing away on the command line? It can be kind of annoying when you need to search for something and…

Linux exists in a complex open source environment, with many different distributions (distros) being developed by programmers from around the…

As web developer Jeremy Keith said in 2009, “Java is to JavaScript as ham is to hamster.” The exact accuracy of that analogy is debatable, but the…

Google Cloud Platform is a competitor to AWS that makes running virtualized servers easy and cheap. Unfortunately for beginners, they have a novel…

If you’ve got a hard drive you want to add to your Linux server, physical or virtual, it’s not going to work out of the box. You’ll have to…

More and more applications are being built on Web technologies, from familiar Web apps and services, to Electron-hosted JavaScript, to a new…

The Unix PATH is an environment variable that tells the shell which directories it should look for when you issue commands. You can think of it…

Imagine a computer user from 2010 dreaming of a world in which Microsoft is not only an enthusiastic proponent of open source software but actively…

The US-CERT today issued advisory warning users of a new dangerous 17-year-old remote code execution vulnerability affecting the PPP daemon (pppd)…

We’ve all done it: snagged a cookie when mom wasn’t looking, had a little too much wine for dinner, let the car sit in a parking spot after the…