Anyone who has tried a YABU (Yet Another uBUntu) based on Ubuntu 16.x knows they really hosed wireless networking. My HP laptop has become almost unusable when it comes to…
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Linux Fatal Design Flaw
Okay, there are many fatal design flaws, such as the inability to actually cluster like OpenVMS has been able to do since the early 1980s, but one is going to…
Is California a Modern Day Jim Crow State
On New Years Eve, like many geeks, I set about doing some year end backups and OS upgrades. It also lead to some experiments with OpenMandriva and OpenSuSE Tumbleweed, but…
Ubuntu/Linux List All Exit Status Codes
I see this questions about this posted a lot. I also see numerous responses telling people to read through C header files. While you certainly cannot identify application level exit…
So Secure You Are Insecure
Recently I had to change my password for a Jeep owners forum. It didn’t expire or anything like that, I simply couldn’t remember the one I had used. Well, they…