UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A - TI-99/4A Development - AtariAge Forums
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/380883-unix99-a-unix-like-os-for-the-ti-994a/
I’ve been working on developing an operating system for the TI-99 for the last 18 months or so. I didn’t intend this—my original plan was to develop enough of the standard C libraries to help with writing cartridge-based and EA5 programs. But that trek led me quickly towards developing an OS. As Unix is by far my preferred OS, this OS is an approximation. Developing an OS within the resources available, particularly the RAM, has been challenging, but also surprisingly doable.
KH-C — Blitz through a MacBook battery using 'yes'
https://kevinhealyclarke.co.uk/blog/2025/10/blitz-through-a-macbook-battery-using-yes/
Here is the command to run:
yes > /dev/null &
Nix/NixOS is the new “dotfiles golf” - and that’s awesome
https://whynot.fail/nixos/the-new-dotfile-golf/
Sets of dotifile hacks are now their own “packages” (flakes in nix world) that anyone can use - stylix for example, which tries to do the impossible: make the theming/styling consistent across the whole OS, from NeoVim to GTK to Plymouth, all with the same colors and wallpapers.
Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple | matttproud.com (blog)
https://matttproud.com/blog/posts/x-window-system-boot-stipple.html
For the uninitiated, what are we looking at? Could it be the Moiré Error from Doom? Well, no. You are looking at (part of) the boot up screen for the X Window System, specifically the pattern it uses as the background of the root window. This pattern is technically called a stipple.
Pass: The Standard Unix Password Manager
http://www.passwordstore.org/
With pass, each password lives inside of a gpg encrypted file whose filename is the title of the website or resource that requires the password.
Pass: The Standard Unix Password Manager
http://www.passwordstore.org
With pass, each password lives inside of a gpg encrypted file whose filename is the title of the website or resource that requires the password.
Dropbox login using only curl, sed and bash | commandlinefu.com
http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/12496/dropbox-login-using-only-curl-sed-and-bash
Use the command line to log into Dropbox. You have to replace me@yahoo.com with your Dropbox email (note the URL-encoding of "@" as %40). Also replace my_passwd with your Dropbox password. (Note: special characters in your password (such as #) must be url-encoded. You will get a cookie (stored in file "cookie") that you can use for subsequent curl operations to dropbox, for example curl -b cookie https://www.dropbox.com/home. Debug note: If you want to see what data curl posts, use curl's --trace-ascii flag.
HANDY ONE-LINE SCRIPTS FOR AWK
http://www.pement.org/awk/awk1line.txt
Leave git diff result in the terminal - Stack Overflow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14004039/leave-git-diff-result-in-the-terminal
export LESS=eFRX
Aaron Toponce : Appropriate Use Of “kill -9 <pid>“
http://pthree.org/2012/08/14/appropriate-use-of-kill-9-pid/
There are times when “kill -9″ is the only time you can kill a PID that is behaving badly. However, it’s usually not needed if you know your signals. When I encounter a badly behaving program, here is the procedure I usually take.
Aaron Toponce : Appropriate Use Of “kill -9 “
http://pthree.org/2012/08/14/appropriate-use-of-kill-9-pid
There are times when “kill -9″ is the only time you can kill a PID that is behaving badly. However, it’s usually not needed if you know your signals. When I encounter a badly behaving program, here is the procedure I usually take.
Introduction to text manipulation on UNIX-based systems
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-unixtext/index.html
This introduction to text manipulation on UNIX platforms provides an overview of some common commands widely available and installed standard on most UNIX-based releases. Many times these standard utilities are ignored in favor of more modern text-processors such as Perl, Python, or Ruby, which are not always installed on a system. An introductory review of these tools helps practitioners who are learning UNIX or Linux or those who may be looking to renew forgotten knowledge.
Screen - The *nix Swiss Army Knife : programming
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/lymmt/screen_the_nix_swiss_army_knife
Article note: I've got a .screenrc on pretty much even machine into which I can ssh
submitted by chipmonk010[link] [comment]
Chaos feared after Unix time-zone database is nuked
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/07/unix_time_zone_database_destroyed
Cool, but obscure unix tools :: KKovacs
http://kkovacs.eu/cool-but-obscure-unix-tools
Taco Bell Programming
http://teddziuba.com/2010/10/taco-bell-programming.html
Taco Bell programming is one of the steps on the path to Unix Zen. This is a path that I am personally just beginning, but it's already starting to pay dividends. To really get into it, you need to throw away a lot of your ideas about how systems are designed: I made most of a SOAP server using static files and Apache's mod_rewrite. I could have done the whole thing Taco Bell style if I had only manned up and broken out sed, but I pussied out and wrote some Python.
pigz - Parallel gzip
http://www.zlib.net/pigz
"A parallel implementation of gzip for modern
multi-processor, multi-core machines"
find and xargs
http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/tech/find.html
"Part of the reason why the Linux command line is so POWERFUL!"
Apple - Support - Discussions - What's the OS X equivalent of "useradd ...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1917638
Show git branches by date - useful for showing active branches | commandlinefu.com
http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/2345/show-git-branches-by-date-useful-for-showing-active-branches
"Print out list of all branches with last commit date to the branch, including relative time since commit and color coding."
An easy way to run many tasks in parallel at Xaprb
http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/05/01/an-easy-way-to-run-many-tasks-in-parallel
Supervisor
http://supervisord.org
Netcat Tar Pipe
http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/~djw/tarpipe.html
"So you have gigs of data to transfer between two machines over ethernet. A nice quick and dirty method is to use netcat and tar. This is by no means secure, but if you haven't got the time or desire to setup NFS, FTPd, Samba. Or wait hours for scp to do its job then this can save you a lot of time. "
irc it — tools/irc — suckless.org
http://www.suckless.org/wiki/tools/irc
"ii is a minimalist FIFO and filesystem-based IRC client. It creates an irc directory tree with server, channel and nick name directories. In every directory a FIFO in file and a normal out file is created."
Synscan - Programs - pipebench
http://www.habets.pp.se/synscan/programs.php?prog=pipebench
"Measures the speed of a pipe, by sitting in the middle passing the data along to the next process."
ivarch.com: Pipe Viewer
http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml
"pv - Pipe Viewer - is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline."
Create RSS feeds from system log files | Mac Geekery
http://www.macgeekery.com/tips/create_rss_feeds_from_system_log_files
"With the advent of RSS readers that can use so-called “local feeds” for various reasons, it was inevitable that some code monkey would convert his 250K system.log file to RSS."
Nelson's Weblog: tech / bash-read-command
http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/bash-read-command.html
"The read command in bash is a magic builtin."
Unix Pipefitter, Jobs at Akoha, Jobs in Montreal
http://jobs.akoha.org/jobs/207-unix-pipefitter
"The Internet is not a truck. It’s a complex network of arcane software, expensive hardware, and maximum-security server closets disguised as ordinary cloakrooms."
Piping Vim Buffer Through Unix Filters: ! and !! Commands
http://www.softpanorama.org/Editors/Vimorama/vim_piping.shtml
"VI takes this same paradigm of pipes and filters and simply wraps it in a editor user interface in which the pipe is applied to editing buffer both as a source and as a destination."
Roll your own servers with Netcat - Lifehacker
http://www.lifehacker.com/software/command-line/roll-your-own-servers-with-netcat-202271.php
"Unix command-line utility netcat gets called the "network swiss army knife" with good reason."
Linux.com | GNU grep's new features
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/05/19/1920231
"If you haven't been paying attention to GNU grep recently, you should be happily surprised by some of the new features and options that have come about with the 2.5 series."
howto-qmail-procmail.txt
http://www.johncon.com/john/receivedIP/howto-qmail-procmail.txt
Checking out how to get procmail working with qmail, in anticipation of setting up a moblog-by-email script.
JS/UIX - Terminal
http://www.masswerk.at/jsuix
"JS/UIX is an UN*X-like OS for standard web-browsers, written entirely in JavaScript (no plug-ins used)."
Haserl -
http://haserl.sourceforge.net
"Haserl is a small cgi wrapper that enables shell scripts to be embedded into html documents. It is intended for environments where something like PHP is too big."
OnDir
http://swapoff.org/OnDir.html
Wyrd
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~pelzlpj/wyrd
"Wyrd is a text-based front-end to Remind, a sophisticated calendar and alarm program."
Roaring Penguin - Remind
http://www.roaringpenguin.com/penguin/open_source_remind.php
"Remind is a sophisticated calendar and alarm program."
bash Tricks From the Developers of the O'Reilly Network
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6915
"Here were our gems, the most useful tips that weren't already common knowledge among the developers."
Code Snippets: Bomb your shell (nice looking pure shell DOS) [dos] [shell]
http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/posts/show/151
"The following will fork bomb your shell" Ouch.
Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html
"An in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting"
btail - a bayesian log filter
http://www.vanheusden.com/btail
UNIX® on the Game Boy Advance
http://www.kernelthread.com/publications/gbaunix
Useless though this may be, it's got me wanting to buy a Flash Cart.
what is /bin/[ ?
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/91498
'Does anyone know what the file "/bin/[" is/does?'
Eleven SSH Tricks
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6602
"Run remote GUI applications and tunnel any Net connection securely using a free utility that's probably already installed on your system."
The Unix Power Classic: A book about the Unix Way and its power
http://mercury.ccil.org/~cowan/upc
'This is my evolving hacker-oriented version of the Tao Te Ching (literally "way power classic").'
Scripting GNU in the 21st Century
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7598
Some nice shell scripting to scrape the BART schedule
Thank Apple for FreeBSD
http://www.osviews.com/modules.php?file=article&name=News&op=modload&sid=938
"No one ever predicted that Apple, of all companies, would ride in with the cavalry and pick up the pieces."
Windows Services for UNIX 3.5 Downloads
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/downloads/default.asp
Need to check this out versus cygwin
macosxhints - A detailed walkthrough on creating backups using rsync
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031024013757927