boardstretcher

That's the part you have a problem with?

Telling.

There isn't a public release of it AFAIK. He is just blogging about the continued development.

Agreed.

I would add 'grep' in there as an absolute must have.

The sed, grep, awk holy trinity will allow you to do pretty much any type of text manipulation and searching that you can imagine.

Here is the thing. Bash is the default on most of the servers you are going to have to work on,. Centos, RedHat, Fedora, Debian, Arch,. etc. So knowing and using Bash is kind of like knowing English in the business world.

Of course, don't let that detract from the usefulness of other shells out there. They can be fun and educational.

Always bring your bag of tricks with you. I have an easy to reach shellscript that I source when on a new/loaned shell. That way I can get my aliases, prompts, functions and everything else I've built to make my life easier.

It's a great idea. But, what code base is this autocomplete going to run off of?

If they are thinking of sourcing the internet itself, there had better be some kind of omniscient, all powerful proofreader in place, because there are a lot of people that submit a lot of code that is HORRIBLY insecure, inaccurate, prone to breakage or just plain spaghetti.

I'd hate to be working on a missile guidance system, only to press <tab> to complete a code block and end up getting some Intel Pentium FDIV instructions.

Great explanation. Thanks for clearing that up so succinctly.

Title is confusing. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Quantum Mechanics is the interpretation of the very small, so the title is essentially 'Have we been interpreting the interpretation wrong this whole time?'

> Washington: A life, by Ron Chernow

Most programs in America, most paintings and all that is apocryphal about Washington always paints him as a humorless, rigid, God-like character. Chernow does a wonderful job of going through the recently released letters of Washington and painting a portrait of a family man, husband, and a man in occasional worry. Love it.

I've had a handful of successful Dell Vostro laptops.

They are dirt cheap and this Vostro V130 I'm writing this on is fast, cool and light. Found it on ebay for 75$ about a year ago.

Running Latest Arch_64 without any special mods.

As an update to the 'anonybox' scandal that befell Kickstarter and the web at large, PORTAL promises to deliver at least the software part of the aforementioned product.

The dev's also mention some small chipped and off-the-shelf hardware that you can purchase on your own to run it. And get this - they don't claim to have made said hardware!

Not a link, but I can tell you that one of the philosphies OpenBSD dev's enjoy is 'trim useless code for maintainability and security.'

LKM hasn't been worked on, improved on, or maintained in any significant way, so... it went away.

There won't be any fanfare made about it officially, because the dev group didn't seem to care about it anymore. Anything un-needed or considered bloat in OpenBSD goes this route eventually,. not with a bang but a whimper.

edit: Having looked at the article, it seems a bit sensationalized by Phoronix. Unfortunately the OpenBSD maintainers didn't care as much as this writer at Phoronix seems to have done.