Unix articles are about the various "flavours" of Unix - Linux, Solaris, BSD, AIX and friends.
Smiffy is a Unix veteran and had been working with it for a few years before he saw his first Microsoft operating system.
This is about the fourth generation of this programme that I have been using over the last few years to generate SQL and Perl code based on a MySQL database schema. The idea behind this is much repetitive coding can be eliminated - the ouput of this programme can be tweaked/corrected and then cut and pasted into an application.
After some ten years since being told about the joys of VMware virtualisation, Smiffy finally gives it a go and wonders how he ever coped before.
Sun Microsystems announces that it is going to buy MySQL AB. That's rather exciting.
Smiffy rejoices at the announcement that Perl 5.10 has been released and finally has a switch statement.
A command-line calculator, written in Perl, SmiffyCalc offers persistence between sessions. This is a step-up from doing calculations from the command line using perl -e
Linode virtual hosting gets a major upgrade - double of everything for the same price.
Smiffy re-evaluates and re-builds his hosting infrastructure, using Linode virtual servers.
Smiffy finally despairs of running Gentoo Linux on Narsil (the Blade that was broken), his SunBlade, and reforges it as Andruil, courtesy of Solaris 10.
Audacity seems like an easier option for audio recording under Linux.
How to get from a Logitech USB headset to an mp3 file with the minimum of fuss.
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