Recent content by neondiet

What? You obviously haven't come across: $ set -o emacs it's the only way to use the CLI. The command line editing/recall features of the official ksh are fantastic. The pdksh has a wonkier version that isn't quite as good. For writing shell scripts, ksh runs rings around the rest, with...

Huh? I don't understand what you're getting at. Don't mix statements about the GPL and BSD licenses though, as they are completely different beasts. The BSD license as I understand it allows anyone to do what the hell they like with the code, including incorporation into closed source...

Good news. I came across this Yahoo article just a few mins ago: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/010823/101/c1xve.html - nd

Lol, you bit. I read that comment and had my nerves pinched too, but on closer observation saw only a juicy worm wriggling tempingly on the end of a hook and line. I like your counter though, you highlight Linux's contribution as an lever to introduce people to the world of unix like...

Both :). If the OS support software RAID natively, then you can use that (whatever its implementation happens to be) or you may be able to use/buy a layered product that implements it (and works on your OS). For software RAID you don't need any special hardware, though it often makes more...

In most RAID 0 implementations I've seen/done, the 'whatever' is a value you select when you initialize the RAID set for the first time. It's called the 'chunksize' and determines how many bytes are written to one drive before moving onto the next. The optimum value for chunksize very much...

That's a cool link. Thanks :-) - nd

I was just looking on apples home page at the iMac. When ... .. 10.1 is out .. MS release Office 10 .. Palm ship their desktop (sync) software for OS X .. and I can get support for an HP Officejet K60 then I will have everything I need to make the switch. I like the idea of the...