Red Hat and Debian fans debate desktop Linux
Mail from longtime reader Steve Mahaffey on the state of desktop Linux. My responses interspersed within: The post Red Hat and Debian fans debate desktop Linux appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
View ArticleIf I had my own Linux distribution
I found an interesting editorial called If I had my own Linux Distro. He's got some good ideas but I wish he'd known what he was talking about on some others. The post If I had my own Linux...
View ArticleOptimizing dynamic Linux webservers
Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP (LAMP) provides an outstanding foundation for building a web server, for, essentially, the value of your time. And the advantages over static pages are fairly obvious: Just...
View ArticleUsing video memory as a ramdisk in Linux
An old idea hit me again recently: Why can't you use the memory that's sitting unused on your video card (unless you're playing Doom) as a ramdisk? It turns out you can, just not if you're using...
View ArticleHow to move your temporary files to a ramdisk
Moving the rest of your temporary files to a ramdisk provides a number of performance benefits. Program installations proceed noticeably faster, and fewer files written to your system disk means less...
View ArticleSSD write endurance (aka longevity) vindicated
I found this chart earlier this week regarding SSD write endurance. Basically, it plots out how long an SSD would last if you set out to deliberately destroy it by writing to it continuously. You could...
View ArticleCuring random errors when installing Office 2013
I got lots of random errors installing Office 2013 when I went to do it, including error code 112-4 and error code 0-4, and some other install errors mostly ending in 4 that aren’t documented on...
View ArticleReversing some WordPress malware
Aug 2016 update: Back in 2015, some kind of spam bot wormed its way into my site. I quickly cleaned it up, then decoded the attack and posted details here. Not long after, the spambot started directing...
View ArticleCommon AmigaDOS commands
The Amiga had a command line, or CLI. It was a rather powerful CLI, especially for its time. But there are a number of differences between AmigaDOS and other operating systems you may be familiar with....
View ArticleCleaning the Windows registry – and optimizing
Cleaning the Windows registry is a popular and controversial topic. Many pundits tell you never to do it. When I wrote a book about Windows back in 1999, I dedicated most of one chapter to the topic....
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