Your Guide To Linux!
Photo by Luca Bravo on Unsplash This is an old page from Jonathan McPherson’s website (now long offline), and it contains a lot of useful information about customizing vim (vi) with .vimrc. This is aimed mostly towards folks who use a flavor of UNIX (a discussion topic about vi/vim on FreeBSD is where this customization … Read more
Featured image by Travis Saylor via Pexels. What is a soft link? What is a hard link? If you’re new to Linux and coming from Windows, you can think of these as what Windows calls “shortcuts” (although they are a little bit different and I’ll get into that). Here’s a way to think about it: … Read more
Featured image by Karolina Grabowska via Pexels. One of my favorite tools on *NIX systems is dd (which stands for copy and convert – “cc” is already taken by the C Compiler). This is a handy utility that allows you to do all sorts of things with drives. When I need to securely erase it, … Read more