Linux/Unix System Administration Certificate Series — This course series targets both beginning and intermediate Linux/Unix users who want to acquire advanced system administration skills, and to back those skills up with a Certificate from the University of Illinois Office of Continuing Education.
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Rob Orsini
is the author of the Rails Cookbook (O'Reilly). He's also the founder and CEO of Tuple Shop, Inc., a web software consulting company specializing in Rails and Python development.
Aaron Parecki
is a Portland-based iPhone and web developer interested in solving practical problems with technology.
Stephen Figgins
administrates Linux servers for Sunflower Broadband, a cable company.
Tom Geudens
joined the IT department of Colruyt, a Belgian retailer specialized in 'Lowest Price' and doing this through automation.
Mil-OSS 4 — 4th military open source software working group conference, in Rosslyn VA. Oct 15-17. Tutorials and sessions will cover: Linux, Geospatial, LiDAR, Drupal, cloud, OSS policy and law, Android and many other topics. The last day will have …
Please i need some help, i would like you to help me make a program that asks the user to enter a password and when the user enters the password in the password field the password is not shown in text nor figures.
just like the linux kernel.( when you type sudo bash or sudo su )
i've searched everywhere and i found no help.
Am Doing Python! Hoping to hear from you.
Here's a list of known LinuxFest events:
California - Los Angeles
Southern California Linux Expo
SCALE
http://www.socallinuxexpo.org
January
Illinois - Chicago
Flourish
http://www.flourishconf.com
March
Massachusetts - Worcester
Northeast Linuxfest
NELF
http://www.northeastlinuxfest.org/
March
South Carolina - Columbia
Palmetto Open Source Software Conference
POSSCON
http://posscon.org ...
With a new major Windows release just around the corner we are being treated to an onslaught of articles proclaiming the failings of Linux on the desktop. You'd think that such articles wouldn't be necessary if the Linux desktop had indeed failed. One recurring theme is the idea that Linux has terrible hardware support. The premise is always that Linux is impossibly difficult to install and that lots of hardware just doesn't work with Linux.
The new Windows 8 Metro desktop, the latest incarnation of Mac OSX, Android, Ubuntu's Unity desktop and GNOME 3, love them or hate them, all came about because of the success of Linux on the desktop.
If you're an old-time Unix or Linux user like me, you know that one of the best parts of Mac OS X is that it includes a full command line world based on NetBSD under the hood. In fact, I always have the Terminal app open and it's a rare day that I'm not writing scripts or otherwise experimenting on the command line, even as my screen is covered with pretty graphical user interfaces and...
