The Blog

Hey Everyone,

Sorry I haven't been posting on the blog lately. There a couple reasons:

• School!
• School!
• School!
• I really don't know a lot about Unix to be truthful...
• I have a new blog! It's called How2Mac (you can find it at http://how2mac.blogspot.com/ )

Cya Later,
Harry

The Return

I'll begin intensely (hopefully) blogging again tommorrow. I have gotten through four exams at school and have one to go, in Geometry. Things are going well, and I still working with my NetBSD machine. I think I may upgrade it 3.0.1. I am also continuing to use gcc. I also may get a Toshiba Libretto or HP 200LX for Christmas, so I will tell you about that if I get it. As for Harry, he is doing well, and, in fact, has installed iPodlinux on his 5G iPod. He is happily playing DOOM on it today. I still use SDF, although I have started to use it more recently. In fact, I am logged in as guofu right now. Overall, everything is well. I look forward to more posting. Maybe Harry will talk a little bit about his iPod, too.

xatapu

Notice

I am so sorry for not updating the blog in so long. But I will be able to soon. Unfortunately over the next week and a half, I will have to prepare for and take final semester exams at school. This will hamper my blogging and Harry's. I will have a couple of articles today, but probably not many until winter break. Just remember this when you see little updating on the blog. Hopefully I will find sometime later to keep posting.

Sincerely,
xatapu

The 100th Post....finally!

Finally, after a month of writing, I have hit 100 posts. I remember when I hit 20 posts sometime ago. I have covered C to commands to ports and even to desktop environments. I am also glad that I have had such a great coauthor as Harry is to contribute to the blog as well. He has added numerous useful reviews and bits of information. Insmod, still, however, has not added a single post since he joined me. I look forward to more writing and learning and (with hope) more development of my Unix skills. Maybe some inetd, httpd, and dhclient experiences in the future.................

xatapu

Cool UBUNTU Image

Haha, I feel like I'm becoming the multimedia person for this blog...

Well here is a cool ubuntu picture/poster thing I found on the 'net.

Very nice!



-Harry

News

Unfortunately, I wouldn't be able to post to the blog much this week. I will not have access to the Internet that often. I will try to continue next week.

Edition 5: Big Changes

Let's see. Already this blog has been updated for four weeks, with nearly 80 posts. We're now on the fifth, beginning this Wednesday, November 8. As for insmod, I am still waiting for a few columns from him. Harry has had some good ones, though. Although my blog has always changed rapidly, there are some large ones today. First, I will not be having particular 'themes' any more asthey are more constrained. Second, I am going to increase publishing and posting. Last week had the lowest on record, with only 11 posts. Third, I will try to dig a bit deeper and maybe get more "reader's responses" now.

Command of the week: tar

Sorry I haven't gotten back to posting in sometimes. Anyway, this week's command is tar. Tar, course, stands for TApe aRchive. It is used to compress files into an archive. Its basic syntax goes like this:

tar file.tar file1 file2 file3

What to me is amazing about tar is its vast expanse of options. You can dump directly to a disk in a drive (-cvfz) and do many other interesting things with tar. For the most part, some basic tar functions are -x, extract, -c, create (new archive), -f, file (set tarfile name), -u, update, -t, which leaves a table of contents, and -r, replace. Here are some examples:

tar -xf /foo/capio.tar /foo

Extract the contents of capio.tar into the folder foo.

tar -cvfz /dev/rfd0a prog1.c newstuff.vi httpd.conf

Tar takes over the floppy drive (in NetBSD in this case) and directly writes the following three files to the floppy. It can be change to burn a CD, though, I think.

Still, this is only a basic tutorial. For more, try this site - http://www.computerhope.com/unix/utar.htm

xatapu

Dot TK

Just a quick post:

I have secured us the name Computing With Unix on .tk

It may not be up yet but here's the link http://www.computingwithunix.tk/

I made it so it is a little easier to get to the blog.

Cya,
Harry

Edition 3

Yes! Today we will begin the third edition of the blog. So far we have had 48 posts and 2 comments. Still not at 50! The other contributors and I will continue to improve the blog, but still keep the qualities the blog has now.

Cool Website: MyDreamApp.com

I just wanted to make a quick post about this website because I thought it was pretty cool. It is basically a place where some people came up with ideas for cool Mac apps and developers brang them to life. Now you can vote on your favorite idea. COOL!

MyDreamApp

-Harry K.A.

Blog News

Hello again, this is xatapu. I am here with some news about this blog's plans and status. First off, we have nearly published for two weeks now, with nearly 50 posts. That is great. I feel that I have definitely broken my "one-week-barrier" for how long I am interested in a particular topic I study on my own. Second, I have begun to standardize the categories I make posts about. First, there's "Spotlight", next there is "Command of the week", and so on. I will explain that later. Third, we, the blog authors, plan to make some new "columns". Insmod may write an "Ask insmod" column for Unix help, and I may write a "New digs" column about my new experience with Unix. Lastly, in the future Harry and insmod will make some new posts to the blog.

Mac OSX Application Review- MacOSaiX

MacOSaiX

What is it?
It is an application for Mac OSX that basically takes any picture and attempts to create a mosaic out out it using you own picture collections, glyphs and Google Image search terms.

Pros:
Good idea. Sometimes works. I do give the creators credit because this is a very hard thing to pull off. Fun to use.

Cons:
Slows down computer, A LOT! Mosaics don't always seem right to me. Takes a while to create.

Price:
Free!! (I think)

Here is a picture of it in action:


Final Verdict:
Its free so what the heck, download it. Its definitely worth a try.

-Harry K.A.

Edition 2

Oh, yes. Today begins edition 2. Now we have two new authors who contribute to the blog. There were 25 posts in edition one, I believe. There is also one comment. I have a pkgsrc article planned. I am looking forward to more posting and improving the blog with the two other authors, insmod and Harry K.A.

Introducing.... ME, Harry that is...

Hello Computing With Unix people. xatapu asked me to join (I know him from school) so... here I am! I don't think I am the "linux expert" he was talking about in one of his earlier blogs but... I'm me. I specialize in Mac computing, I know some about PC (yuck!) and a little about linux. If I can help anybody with anything I will be glad to do so. I am gunna post some pics sooof my linux setup. So until then (or my next post) this is Harry signing off...

See You Guys Later...
-Harry K.A.-