Links 29/1/2014: Applications
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-01-29 09:39:16 UTC
- Modified: 2014-01-29 09:39:16 UTC
-
Archiving tools typically are intimidating and confusing. Even those with GUIs often require an investment of time to figure out how to use them. B1 is very intuitive. Almost every action can be executed through keyboard shortcuts. The menu row at the top of the app window has only three drop-down categories: File, Commands and Help. The dialog boxes that open from the menu are well designed and easy to use.
-
I freely admit that I wish Plex was open source. Thankfully, however, its proprietary code does't mean Linux users are excluded.
-
When NodeJS made its debut in open source market, around 4 years ago, everyone knew what was going to follow. Programmers loved it at first sight, used it and evolved it. The idea of having a JS client, that talks to a JS server and stores data in a JS database ( document databases ), was quite attractive and people adapt it at once, in every case, right or wrong.
-
pax is one of the lesser known utilities in a typical Linux installation. That's too bad, because pax has a very good feature set, and its command-line options are easy to understand and remember. pax is an archiver, like tar(1), but it's also a better version of cp(1) in some ways, not least because you can use pax with SSH to copy sets of files over a network. Once you learn pax, you may wonder how you lived without it all these years.
-
LaTeX is a document preparation system and document markup language for high-quality typesetting. The system was originally developed by Leslie Lamport in the early 1980s. LaTeX is based on Donald E. Knuth's TeX typesetting language. Lamport says that LaTeX “represents a balance between functionality and ease of use”.
-
Linux Shell is one of the most fascinating and powerful GNU/Linux powered tool. All the application, including X, is built over shell and Linux shell is so powerful that the whole Linux system can be controlled precisely, using it. The other aspect of Linux shell is that, it can be potentially harmful, when you executed a system command, without knowing its consequence or unknowingly.
-
A few months ago, Docker (then dotCloud) and Red Hat announced a partnership to collaborate around Docker, the excellent container management solution for Linux. At the time, the OpenShift team was heads down working on our 2.0 release, but we were already thinking about how we could use Docker to take application development and deployment on OpenShift to the next level.
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Google 'Search' is Fast Becoming No Better Than Social Control Media Infested With Bots
- Google emerged almost 30 years ago as a company looking to organise the Web and direct people towards informative pages. That Google is dead.
- Before the OSI Was Bribed and Hijacked by Microsoft via GitHub and Compromised Management...
- The OSI isn't even remotely "woke"
- The OSI Has Been Silent for Over 3 Weeks, It Has a Severe Trust Issue After Promoting Microsoft and Proprietary GitHub
- OSI took a lot of money from Microsoft to become a Microsoft lobbyist
- Bribery is OK If You Work for Microsoft (No Punishment Expected)
- It's very troubling and a symptom of a broken society/system when particular laws or rules are applied and enforced against some people but not against others
- Someone Should Remind Microsoft Lunduke That Microsoft Hires Many Sexual Criminals and Pedophiles as Well
- Microsoft Lunduke on an "expedition" to find one or more perverts, then generalise to everyone in the "community"
- Cash Machines (ATMs) Make Mistakes and They're Proprietary Software
- Correcting mistakes is a colossal challenge
-
- Some People See What Others See... But Only 40 Years Later
- When people deviate from "the norm" they typically get ridiculed and dismissed as "crazy"
- Links 30/07/2025: Tea Class Action and Google Killing the Web With Slop
- Links for the day
- Last Month Our IRC Community Turned 17
- Funnily enough we never missed a single day when it comes to logging
- "The Unix Kernel"
- Linux was inspired by MINIX
- The Register Relays Microsoft Marketing, Dubs That Marketing "Research"
- Hours ago they did a "Microsoft sez" piece
- Dealing With Sociopaths, Liars, and Cranks
- A dysfunctional society such as this would never develop
- Not Owning Mobile Phones
- It's not about resistance; it's common sense
- PCLinuxOS Had Functional Backups Before the House Fire, the Site Will be Restored in New Webhost
- This is the direction we want for GNU/Linux, not some IBM sales strategy
- Gemini Links 30/07/2025: Two Sides of Me and "Hooked on Cosmic Voyage"
- Links for the day
- Microsoft Will Continue Resorting to Crimes in Order to Keep GNU/Linux Usage Down
- It is a real problem and we'll revisit it later this week
- GAFAM 'Revolving Doors' at The Register and a "Bribe Price List"
- "an analyst at Microsoft"
- Microsoft Rapidly Shrinking (No, It's Not About Efficiency, It's About Unbearable Debt)
- We'll soon see how much debt grew in the past quarter
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, July 29, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, July 29, 2025
- Corruption is the Standard Operating Procedure at the European Patent Office (EPO)
- The EPO is a dictatorship that stains Europe
- Local Staff Committee Munich (LSCMN) at the European Patent Office (EPO) Requests an Urgent Meeting to Avoid Abolishing the Office
- This is dictatorship led by the most corrupt
- Slopwatch: Fake 'Linux' 'Articles' and Spamfarms/Slopfarms
- at least 5 fake articles in one day
- Gemini Links 29/07/2025: Wayland Unfit for Use and LLM Slop Faking One's Language Skills With Robot Communications
- Links for the day
- Nailing the "Hey Hi" (AI) Hype Bubble
- So-called "hey hi" as they define it now is all about large companies or regimes remotely controlling the processes running on your machine and even your very own behaviour on your machine, which is in effect no longer your machine but some remotely controlled apparatus
- "Four decades; Four freedoms; For all users" Now as a T-shirt
- That's shown along the sidebar
- Links 29/07/2025: Bad Climate and "Fair Software Licensing" Blasts Microsoft
- Links for the day
- Links 29/07/2025: Data Brokers Gone Wrong/Rogue and "Copyright Thicket"
- Links for the day
- Slopwatch: Linuxconfig.org, Linuxsecurity.com, Fagioli, The Register
- Today's "Slopwatch" isn't the first article about LLM slop
- We Cover Topics Other Sites Are Too Afraid to Cover (Even When They Know the Facts)
- It's not that they doubt the truth, they just realise there may be consequences for talking about it
- They Try to Tell Us the Free Software Foundation Inc is Dying, But Its Revenue Doubled Since the Dot-Com Bubble Burst
- Being in "Activism" is never easy; but it does positive things for society
- Yes, Microsoft is the Problem
- "I am no MS shill."
- It's About the Cost of Workers, Not the Fictional Skills Shortage (That Does Not Exist, the Media Spreads False and Sometimes Self-Fulfilling Narratives)
- This issue isn't limited to computing, some dub it "globalism"
- Another Failed Use Case for Chatbots (LLM): Legal Advice and Analysis
- They're just some self-discrediting toy that costs way too much to operate
- Links 29/07/2025: More Pushbacks Against Slop and More Praises of Tom Lehrer
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 29/07/2025: Purple Yarrow and Understanding Op Amps
- Links for the day
- This Monday WebProNews Absolutely Flooded the Web With Fake (LLM Slop) 'Articles' About "Linux", Google News Promoted Them as Legitimate
- All of the following are fake articles attributed to pseudonyms or authors that don't exist; the images are also slop. Why does Google promote these?
- Linuxiac is Not a Slopfarm, But at Least Some of Its Articles Are Machine-Generated Fakes
- what we said about it was correct
- Expect More Microsoft Layoffs
- "Are more job cuts coming?"
- Microsoft Behaving Like It's Running Out of Money to Pay Salaries
- Does that seem like the behaviour expected from a company which claims it is "worth" trillions?
- LWN Downtime Due to Linode, Not LLM Bots
- "I’ve received an email letting me know that there is a potential for data loss."
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 28, 2025
- IRC logs for Monday, July 28, 2025
- Nonfree Software in My Bank, by Richard Stallman
- Updated 8 hours ago
- Links 28/07/2025: Science, Health, and Conflicts
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 28/07/2025: Healthy Self-Image With Autism and a "New Life"
- Links for the day
- Links 28/07/2025: COVID-19 Sped up Brain Aging, "Circumvention is More Popular Than Compliance"
- Links for the day
- Richard Stallman is Usually Right Because He Thinks "Outside the Box"
- he is able to observe society (mores and norms) as somewhat of an outsider
- LWN Has Been Down for a Long Time, Another Casualty of LLM Bots?
- Time will tell. How much time though?
- Slopfarms Versus 'Linux' (and Against People Who Write Real Articles About GNU/Linux)
- LLM slop in slopfarms by Brian Fagioli and Redazione RHC
- Gemini Links 28/07/2025: Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray and Running pkgsrc in a FreeBSD Jail
- Links for the day
- Microsoft Turns News Sites Into Spamfarms
- Is the site The Register MS the next IDG?
- The Register MS/The Register US
- On Saturday I contacted them for a comment (before issuing criticism)
- Hacking revelations at Vatican Jubilee of Digital Missionaries
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, July 27, 2025
- IRC logs for Sunday, July 27, 2025