Intro to Darwinism
No, this isn't going to be a religious or scientific battle about the origin of our universe. It's going to…
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Fork and Exec with Perl
Recently I had a project that required a number of different programs that will mostly run all the time, but…
In Defense of Unix (and Linux, of course)
Warning: This article contains strong language and unpopular opinions. Reading of this material by Windows advocates may cause severe gastric…
Microsoft’s Services For Unix
Gosh, you'd never expect me to say something pleasant about a Windows machine, would you? Well, actually that's not entirely…
NT vs. Unix
I think it was some Sun piece that said something like: "If all you ever had to do with an…
Quick and Easy Custom 404 Pages
By design, the server that hosts your web site delivers a 404 Error / Page Not Found when a surfer…
Perl on your Mac
Perl (Practical Extraction and Report Language) is a predominately Unix driven program. There are interpreters for all the major (and…
How to Monitor Windows NT from Unix
Many system administrators are running Unix / Linux based monitoring and alerting for a long term. The basic idea behind…
Unix Permissions
These are classic Unix permissions. However, many modern Unixes support extended attributes that go beyond this. We'll look at one…
How To Send Email With Perl, Part I
You'll get started with a working program right away, one that will send a plain text email. It can be…
