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It's about time I tackled this ugly task. I've been promising a follow-up to Ubuntu is not Linux. Because the broad point that I'm trying to make needs to be hammered down, I will explain it again and again and again, more and more clearly each time.

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Created by C733tus 29 weeks 5 days ago
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You Can Hack An OS But You Can't Hack People - part 5: No Help For The Helpless 29 weeks 3 days ago

Going forward, I'd just like to point out that I don't claim to have all the answers. What I am doing here, is attempting to ask the right questions. How can we even hope to find the answers if nobody can ask the right, logical questions first?

Hack and crack proof SSH on Linux 1 year 17 weeks ago

It’s inevitable: if your computer is Internet-connected you will have people coming a-knockin’. Fortunately Linux users are more savvy than to think any keep-alive ping or other piece of Internet flotsam is a hack attempt.

You Can Hack An OS But You Can't Hack People - part 2: The Computing World 29 weeks 5 days ago

Penguin Pete gets into the fairytales... welocome to the computing republics of Windows, Apple, and Unix; all ruled in remarkably different ways.

You Can Hack An OS But You Can't Hack People - part 3: More Maps 29 weeks 5 days ago

Part 3 of Penguin Pete's analogical fairy tale about Windows, Apple and Unix, elaborating on how each republic is run and developed - telling the history of each development.

You Can Hack An OS But You Can't Hack People - part 6: The Black Hand 29 weeks 1 day ago

Why is this part titled "The Black Hand"? Well, because I started this series using a nations metaphor. Citizens of Windows who expatriate and immigrate to Linux will be "foreigners" in Linux.

Hack Week III is almost upon us! 14 weeks 4 hours ago

Hack Week III is almost upon us! Novell is once again sponsoring Hack Week, from August 25th through August 29th, and we want the openSUSE community to be in on it!

You Can Hack An OS But You Can't Hack People - part 4: Godzilla moves in with Bambi 29 weeks 4 days ago

I assure you, this situation is far, far graver than any of the rest of you seem to know. As much guesswork as it is figuring out who runs what, I'm going to take this recent Ars Technica article and give both Apple and Linux the benefit of the doubt. I'll hedge their numbers up to 4% desktop market share for Apple, and 2% for Linux. That leaves Windows at a mere 94%.

A Useful Hack for Storing Text or Editable Pictures You Need to Reuse, in OpenOffice Impress Presentations 1 year 22 weeks ago

My friend Ben Horst wrote to me with a question about how to store editable content in a presentation that you reuse periodically. Like a few buttons formatted a particular way, text boxes, anything that can't easily be drawn and formatted and has to look a certain way.

My answer was, well, kind of a hack, but I think it's useful enough to point out.

Hardware Hacking with Debian GNU/Linux 44 weeks 5 days ago

What is this book about? Well, if you are new to GNU/Linux, and wish to hack AVR microcontrollers, this book should help you do it.

But then, why is it not called `Hack AVR microcontrollers with Debian GNU/Linux’? Well, that was what I thought I would call it, but then I changed my mind.

Maybe, I can show how to design circuits with gEDA, build PCB’s, simulate circuits, do mathematical computations … stuff like that. In that case, this becomes a more general book.