Tag Archives: linux

safe computing – passwords

Posted on October 14, 2018 by DocDock

Have you ever done something despite the knowledge that it isn’t really safe?  This generic sentence could be anything from jaywalking to unprotected sex. In my case, the situation is perhaps a both more mundane and a 21st century problem.  I do … Continue reading →

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Chasing the little green lock

Posted on September 25, 2018 by DocDock

I wanted for the longest time to both convert this blog from http to https. Computers are ever more powerful and my site is pretty simple – it should not have been a big deal.  Not only that but with the … Continue reading →

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ripping compact discs to audio files

Posted on September 16, 2018 by DocDock

Perhaps it is not necessary for another article about how to convert cd’s to a format that can be used on our mp3 or ogg music players.  I have used k3b program for extracting ogg files in the past. I … Continue reading →

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Support your favorite …

Posted on December 2, 2017 by DocDock

The open source community is an amazing place.  No matter what software you want there is an extremely good chance that it exists. You can use Gimp for manipulating graphic images, LibreOffice or Apache Office for word processing, piviti for … Continue reading →

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installing maven on linux

Posted on October 3, 2017 by DocDock

Maven offers quite a bit as a enterprise build tool.  It can help ensure that standards are followed and offers support for automated testing.  This tool is actually really simple to install.  It is just a matter of unpacking it … Continue reading →

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command line fun – finding mistakes

Posted on September 29, 2017 by DocDock

I knew that I had mistyped but it was too late.  I tried to exit out of vi in a hurry and accidentally exited but saved the file under a new name.  This wouldn’t have been so bad if the … Continue reading →

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command line fun – temporary data

Posted on September 11, 2017 by DocDock

Most of the scripts that I need to write don’t actually need to manipulate a lot of data.  It is usually enough to pipe that data through a command or two and use the result.  When this isn’t acceptable then … Continue reading →

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bash – More powerful than a speeding locomotive

Posted on August 11, 2017 by DocDock

(flashback) Our project was inching closer and closer to going live.  On the evening before the Easter break some clod started a massive report which tried to process all the data since the beginning of time. My colleague’s inefficient program gathered … Continue reading →

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command line fun – unlimited command line length

Posted on April 20, 2017 by DocDock

While looking into another problem, plethora of shells, I was initially afraid that some of my fooling around was causing some odd side effects.  While investigating I ended up with a different solution that was actually overkill but it help … Continue reading →

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a plethora of shells – what is my shell interpreter

Posted on March 13, 2017 by DocDock

I kept seeing odd error messages from my shell script that simply made no sense.  No matter what changes I made a new error seemed to pop up.  A short while later I did notice at the top of the … Continue reading →

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