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The Simple Unix Command That Gave Birth To Social Networking
A long time ago, when people dialed (as in telephones) into Unix machines in some closet or college campus, they used a command called “w” to see who was also on the machine.
Cathode Puts The Sex Back In Terminal Emulators
Twenty bucks for a terminal emulator when there’s already a perfectly serviceable one on your Mac? Secret Geometry’s “Cathode” makes a good case for itself. It can look like nearly any terminal on any old flickering CRT monitor.
Microsoft’s Pseudo Sudo Patent
So, how exactly did Microsoft end up patenting Sudo, a years-old Linux command-line tool, without someone stepping in to stop them? Easy! They didn’t.
Beware: UNIX Time to Read 1234567890 On Friday the 13th
Forget the Mayans and their silly 2012 doomsday scenario. The real end of the world will happen because of that most venerable of operating systems: UNIX.
People Have No Idea What Windows 7 Is
Proof Microsoft could’ve done whatever it wanted with Windows 7 and people would’ve swallowed it, as long as it’s pretty: People told a demo of KDE 4 was Windows 7 were amazed.
Twenty Five Year Old Unix Bug Finally Fixed
We’re not sure why nobody’s caught this bug until now, but OpenBSD developer Marc Balmer has just closed the book on a 25-year-old flaw affecting BSD file systems. He found it when an OpenBSD user emailed him about SAMBA crashing, which he then traced to a workaround SAMBA used to function correctly on BSD systems, which he THEN traced back to a flaw that existed since August of 1983. This bug is in every single BSD system since then, including Mac OS X. The code itself was a very trivial fix, which makes it all the crazier that it took 25 years to do so. [OS News - Photo credit]
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