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Microsoft PowerShell goes open source, lands on Linux and Mac
Sysadmins, rejoice: PowerShell is coming to Linux and Mac. Microsoft announced Thursday that its automation and scripting system is breaking out of the confines of Windows and going open source. The company is also releasing alpha versions of PowerShell for Linux...
Program a Raspberry Pi Zero Over the USB Port
The Raspberry Pi Zero might still be hard to find, but at least it’s not hard to use. DIYer and teacher Te Co Ed shows off how to easily program and use the Pi Zero over USB. The Raspberry Pi Zero Is a $5 Computer the Size of a Stick of Gum The Raspberry Pi has long...
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHROME AND CHROMIUM EXPLAINED
When Google launched its Chrome browser, they open-sourced most of the software and released it to the Chromium project. Google Chrome has all the features of Chromium and adds features such as automatic updates, and built-in PDF viewer and Flash player. Dig in as we...
How To Check If You’ve Been Hacked Within Seconds
Even if your password is a bit more complicated that “qwerty,” your information is always out there in the big, bad world of the Internet. Just this week, it was revealed that hundreds of millions of account details had been stolen from many popular email services and...
Tech Solutions: How can I vet poor answers from expert answers?
Stack Exchange gathers all the best tech forums (i.e. Stack Overflow) as well as some random forums and lists the top-rated experts in each tech category.
Why doesn’t rc.local run all my commands, and what can I do about it?
rc.local doesn't tolerate errors. rc.local doesn't provide a way to intelligently recover from errors. If any command fails, it stops running. The first line, #!/bin/sh -e, causes it to be executed in a shell invoked with the -e flag. The -e flag is what makes a...