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• Understanding Unix spells and curses 3 hours, 56 minutes ago
  
  IBM's DeveloperWorks has published a tutorial on Unix pipelines, redirections, operators, and other "strange characters" inhabiting Unix's command line netherworld. "Speaking UNIX: !$#@*%" aims to teach intermediate Unix and Linux users a better understanding of the symbols used by system administrators in both interactive and non-interactive shell programming.
• IBM brings 5GHz chip to its top-selling Unix server 4 days, 4 hours ago
  
  The Power 570, IBM's top-selling midrange server, is now available with a 5GHz Power6 processor, which was previously available only in IBM's high-end Power 595 system, as IBM targets customers who want to use its hardware for virtualization and server consolidation. The manufacturing yields for the 5GHz chip have been good enough that IBM can offer it in higher-volume systems, said Scott Handy, IBM vice president of worldwide marketing and strategy.
• Learn even more command-line tricks and operators in UNIX 1 week ago
  
  Get a better understanding of all those "strange" characters UNIX users are typing. Learn how to use pipelines, redirections, operators, and more in UNIX.
• Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? 2 weeks, 3 days ago
  
  Linux is enjoying growth, with a contingent of devotees too large to be called a cult following at this point. Solaris, meanwhile, has thrived as a longstanding, primary Unix platform geared to enterprises. But with Linux the object of all the buzz in the industry, can Sun's rival Solaris Unix OS hang on, or is it destined to be displaced by Linux altogether?
• More Gutbusting RFC's - Linux and Unix Humor 2 weeks, 5 days ago
  
  Hope you're having a great Sunday :) Following up on a joke post we did last week regarding RFC 3093 For the Firewall Enhancement Protocol, I found a site that lists even more of them. In fact, if you visit WYAE you can find a pretty good listing of all the known joke RFC's that have been released (all the way through 2008). Who knew there were so many in-jokes out-there.
• Programming between native z/OS and zOS UNIX Systems Services 3 weeks, 2 days ago
  
  Although programming between USS and traditional z/OS still remains a mystery for most programmers, this article will fill in the gaps. It explains to native z/OS programmers how to benefit from UNIX on z/OS, and shows UNIX programmers how to interact with traditional z/OS.
• Speaking UNIX: More shell scripting techniques 1 month ago
  
  How could someone make a more powerful editing tool than vi, you may ask? The answer is Vim, and this article provides details on the many enhancements that have made Vim a highly used and acceptable editor in the world of UNIX and Linux.
• Tcsh shell variable manipulation 1 month ago
  
  Tcsh is one of the most popular UNIX shells. Learn how you can use tcsh shell variables to make your work easier and how to take advantage of tcsh's advanced security features.
• OpenSolaris Project: Hadoop Live CD 1 month, 1 week ago
  
  Organizations routinely collect a huge amount of data, including web crawls, email messages, and scientific data. Processing these datasets with traditional relational database models or streaming algorithms is no longer scalable. A new data processing model, MapReduce, addresses this challenge by leveraging large clusters of hundreds or thousands of heterogeneous servers.
• Lists vs. Strings: Perl List Permutations For Linux Or Unix 1 month, 1 week ago
  
  I think I promised yesterday that all posts having to deal with Number Pools And Guaranteed Combinations Within Fixed Lists would have that string in their title, but, upon further reflection, it seems like it would make every title waaaay too long, and none of the parts would get indexed correctly, since Google might discard them as duplicate content based on the title tag.
• Online Encyclopedia Shell Script For Linux And Unix 1 month, 1 week ago
  
  Today's Linux/Unix bash shell script is a follow up (and the finishing touch, I hope ;) to a whole slew of scripts we've written to mine the knowledge on tap at reference.com. If you missed any of the others, you can still find them in our older bash script posts to access the online Thesaurus and, of course, the online dictionary. This time we're breaking the chains and losing the albatross by finally attacking (with some level of precision) the Online Encyclopedia and producing a shell script does it as much justice as we could muster.
• Speaking Unix: The new and improved Vim editor 1 month, 2 weeks ago
  
  If you've worked on IBM AIX, another flavor of UNIX, or Linux, you've more than likely used the vi editor. How could someone make a more powerful editing tool than vi, you may ask? The answer is Vim, and this article provides details on the many enhancements that have made Vim a highly used and acceptable editor in the world of UNIX and Linux.
• The LXF Test: OpenSolaris 2008.05 1 month, 3 weeks ago
  
  Sun is battling hard to break into the open source operating system world with OpenSolaris. Juliet Kemp takes it for a test-drive, sampling its unique features and seeing how it fares against Linux...
• Unix and Linux Online Dictionary Shell Script 1 month, 3 weeks ago
  
  Today's Linux/Unix bash shell script is is a blatant exploitation of a post we did, not too long ago, where we put together a Thesaurus shell script. This time we're creating a shell script to emulate a full-function dictionary. The actual online source we draw from (Dictionary.com) deserves the credit for knowing what virtually every word in the English language means ;)
• German Court: SCO Must Pay a Fine. Yes. Again. - updated 1 month, 3 weeks ago
  
  SCO was taken to court again in Germany, by one of the companies that got an injunction years ago, Heise is reporting, and now it must pay a fine to the company, Thinking Objects Software GmbH. Three companies took SCO Germany to court back then, and this is one of the three. I'll show you a computer translation first of the headline in Heise. It is perfection:
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