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Cache Directory Tagging Standard edit / delete

It feels like I ought to have written some scripts that implement this...

to cache filesystem unix ... on 14 October 2016

simonyiszk/csdr: A simple DSP library and command-line tool for Software Defined Radio. edit / delete

SDR pipeline tools for Unix. The author's done various neat stuff involving FM subcarriers with this.

to dsp fm radio sdr software unix ... on 11 October 2016

Unix Tree edit / delete

"Welcome to the Unix Tree. Here you can browse the source code and manuals of various old versions of Unix." A lower-tech version of DDS's Git repo.

to digital history pdp11 retrocomputing unix ... on 11 October 2016

Command-line tools can be 235x faster than your Hadoop cluster edit / delete

Nothing wrong with a bit of 1970s technology in the right context -- how to solve a not-very-big-data problem the right way.

to awk cloud cluster hadoop performance pipeline unix ... on 14 September 2016

George Coulouris: Bits of History edit / delete

The author of em talks about it.

to ed editor em retrocomputing unix ... on 21 June 2016

Port of em to modern OS edit / delete

em being the Editor for Mortals, which added one-line editing to ed. The story I was told by Bob Eager (?) was that they installed this at Kent, but found fairly quickly that people tended to typo the name as "rm"...

to ed editor em retrocomputing software unix ... on 21 June 2016

Floodgap Retrobits presents the Solbourne Solace: a shrine to the forgotten SPARC edit / delete

High-performance Sun clones.

to retrocomputing solbourne sun sunos unix ... on 21 June 2016

Unix system programming in OCaml edit / delete

"This document is an introductory course on Unix system programming, with an emphasis on communications between processes. The main novelty of this work is the use of the OCaml language". This is effectively APUE done in OCaml -- which is a really nice way (in my opinion!) to introduce the language.

to apue functional ocaml programming unix ... on 16 March 2016

Unix Heritage Wiki edit / delete

"This wiki aims to collect the available historical documents and recollections of Unix into one central place so they can be studied by researchers and Unix enthusiasts alike."

to bell history os-design retrocomputing unix ... on 16 March 2016

jlevy/the-art-of-command-line: Master the command line, in one page edit / delete

I didn't learn anything remarkable here (although it did remind me about M-# in bash, which I always forget), but this is a good reference for new Unix-like users.

to shell tips unix ... on 16 March 2016