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Extra Disk Space on Linux – For Free! :-)
Today, I held a class on file systems, during which I demonstrated how to create a mountable image file on Linux. After mounting the image, my students and I somehow got to wonder what would happen, if you copied or … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, Linux, Non-technical, Uncategorized
Tagged container, file systems, image, linux, mkfs, mount, weird stuff
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The Brilliant Concept of Standard Streams in Unix (1)
1. The basic idea of standard streams In the 1980s, almost every book or class on computer science here in Germany started with an explanation of the EVA-Prinzip, where E stood for Eingabe (Input), V for Verarbeitung (Processing), and A … Continue reading
How to use ancient Morse code to solve a modern problem
If you own a Raspberry Pi mini computer the following problem may sound familiar to you: You just connected your Rasperry Pi to a network with automatic DHCP. Now you need to find out what IP address has been assigned … Continue reading
Posted in c, Information Theory, Linux, Raspberry Pi, Uncategorized
Tagged c, dhcp, gpio, ip address, linux, morse code, programming, Raspberry Pi
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Why Linux DOES NOT Suck
By Andre M. Maier On October 5, 1991, Linus Torvalds officially published the first version of his homemade Linux kernel. Today, 24 years later, a large number of IT professionals agree that best of Linux is yet to come. I … Continue reading
Posted in Linux, Non-technical
Tagged education, free software, linux, open-source, unix
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