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The votes are in and it looks like we're moving. Plus, the answer to the treasure hunt from last week. There are still several hours left to go on the poll (which may be closed at the time of publishing) as I write this post, but (unless something insane happens) it looks as though our desire to remove ourselves from blogspot agrees with the opinion of about 77 percent of the folks who took the time to vote.

It's been a while since we put out an seo metrics script. In many ways, this is the opposite of our last one.

This may have very little to do with Unix or Linux, but I miss Jack Handey ;) Well, it's the end of yet another week, which means I'm slacking off and showcasing funny stuff from other places :) Today, even though I can't make the connection between this piece, Linux and/or Unix, I bring you the (long, but, hopefully, not forgotten) musings of Jack Handey.

A few more pictures that speak several thousand words ;) The holidays are looming larger every day now and, I don't know about you, but it's giving me a migraine. Lots of stress and craziness, mostly surrounding who's getting what for whom and constantly wondering if they're overdoing it or not doing enough.

See if you can figure out what the encrypted script is :) Today, since the holidays are bringing me so much joy (heavy, heavy sarcasm ;), I thought it would be fun to write a post that makes use of some of the principles we've posted on this blog over the past year and combine them to create a treasure hunt of sorts.

Initially setting up the XSCF facility on Sun M4000's is just as much fun as you think ;) You may have noticed (sometime in the last year or so ;) that I like to write about Sun computers and Solaris almost as much as I like to write about the many variants of Linux out there, without which I might not even have gotten interested in computing in the first place.

Why settle for black and white (or black and green, for that matter) when you can have teal on blue? How's this for a long-overdue follow up. If my powers of site searching don't fail me, we haven't touched on the Z Shell (zsh) since our post, from July 2008 about multiple stream output in zsh which links back to another post on zsh's extended globbing functionality. This post is more of a follow up to that one than the other, but who's counting? ;)

It may be time to pull up stakes and move to a new host. We humbly ask for your input.

Web frontend for changing your Unix or Linux user password

Put the computer down and come out with your hands up ;)

How does traceroute work? After a lengthy rant on knowledge and intelligence, we'll figure it all out ;) Today we're going to start a new random thread of posts dealing with common commands and how they work. The meat of today's post is near the end, as the explanation, when I get around to it, is fairly simple and easy to both convey and understand. The majority of this page will be an introduction to this series of posts, with some philosophy mixed in (which may upset certain people) and a brief discourse on knowledge (what it means to have it and why it's probably the worst measure of a person you could ever use).

Sometimes, df's best estimate can be off by more than several Gigabytes... give or take ;) Today we're going to look at a little something that is a fairly hot-running-water issue on most of the Linux and Unix boards lately (actually, probably always has been, but our research staff quit on us ;) This post will be similar in focus to our previous post on the differences between sar and vmstat with regards to free memory/swap reporting.

At least someone out there cares that you can't find your page ;) For this post, I spent a bunch of time goofing around with Telnetting to port 80 to try and force the binary modes (-8, -L), and some combination of those and the "no-escape" clause (...I mean, flag ;) and encountered terrible frustration.

A little help for those of you who may not be allowed to edit the .swatchrc directly. Since I'm coming down from a week of getting kicked in the teeth (I mean, being 24x7 primary on call ;) this week's Monday Unix and/or Linux script is veering from the direction they mostly go in. My next idea was to create a CLI book reader to compliment out previous script to find free online books.

Some funny stuff mixed with some practical advice. What a treat :) For today's humor post I found a nice page from Pedro Diaz' Technical University of Madrid Homepage. I've actually only included a very small portion of his page on Unix and Linux Horror Stories. The rest of it is well worth the lengthy read.

The Initials of "Political Correctness" alone make this a curious read about Unix/Linux "Improvements" ;) For this weekend, I again combed the Internet with a fine-toothed ...hair brush... and found even more funny stuff out there. It never ceases to amaze me that, out of the billions of people alive on this planet, so many have managed to retain their sense of humor :) Meanwhile, I thank my "Deity of the moment" for them, since, as "Reader's Digest" so eloquently put it: "Laughter is the finest off all medicines and will probably end up being the cure for most everything." I'm paraphrasing, of course.

Star Wars as it was meant to be seen; and not heard. Since this Telnet version of Star Wars was released a long time ago (less than a decade) in a galaxy far far away (not in my back yard), a lot of the links that claim the story is incomplete are incorrect. As of the writing of this post, I've watched the entire thing. Cool, yet sad. The best part is that, since there's no sound, you don't have to actually "hear" Luke whining ;)

You can protect yourself from everybody some of the time and some people all of the time, but you can't protect yourself from mother ;) Today's post is going to be about security on Linux and Unix, since we're building up to doing some work with CAPTCHA in the near future and need to keep ourselves awake and interested ;) To be more specific, today's post is going to deal with site, and user, security on the Internet (although you could apply these examples to various arenas).

All good things must come to end. Over and over and over again ;) To most users of Linux and/or Unix (or pretty much any other OS with networking capabilities), the most basic concepts of the TCP and UDP protocols are, at least, somewhat familiar.

Solaris 10 packet sequence numbers. Are they still bullet-proof? Were they ever? Does It Matter Anymore? A study in gross oversimplification. Today, we're going to look at a subject that gets plenty of attention (but, maybe not as much publicity) in the world of Unix and Linux network computing: TCP packet sequence number prediction, how it's used to protect network transmissions and whether or not, with the advent of packet checksumming, etc, it's even a factor in basic network security anymore.