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On Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:00:11 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

in order to keep it from finding Windows' brain-dead grep
equivalent.

How many hundreds, thousands of hours of your life do you end up
spending on fighting against a computer system that doesn’t want to
work with you, but against you?
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On 6/6/26 02:32, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

On Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:00:11 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

in order to keep it from finding Windows' brain-dead grep
equivalent.

How many hundreds, thousands of hours of your life do you end up
spending on fighting against a computer system that doesn’t want to
work with you, but against you?

I worked in an office, 99% Winders. Only ONE other
guy knew Linux half-ass - and they pissed him off
so much he quit.

So yea, *I* spent a LOT of time 'fighting'.

No really great aprox of 'rsync' in Winders either.
That's an EXTREMELY useful util.

Anyway, real world, you're gonna get a thoroughly
MIXED environment. No getting around it. Didn't
matter that all MY stuff was Linux/Unix ...

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On 2026-06-06, Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]d> wrote:

On Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:00:11 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

in order to keep it from finding Windows' brain-dead grep
equivalent.

How many hundreds, thousands of hours of your life do you end up
spending on fighting against a computer system that doesn’t want
to work with you, but against you?

Far too many. But that's what a job is about, sometimes.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Growth for the sake of
\ / <[email protected]d> | growth is the ideology
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | of the cancer cell.
/ \ if you read it the right way. | -- Edward Abbey
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On 2026-06-03, rbowman <[email protected]> wrote:

On Wed, 3 Jun 2026 11:07:49 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:

On 2026-06-02, Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]d> wrote:

Jack Wallen makes some good points in this list of basic Linux concepts
worth mastering >>><https://www.zdnet.com/article/things-you-need-to-master-to-become-a-

linux-pro/>.

Yes, you can do a lot of things through the point-and-click GUI. But
that is mostly just a bunch of front-ends on command-line/scripting
tools that do all the actual work. Also, GUIs vary a lot from one
distro to another, or even one distro installation to another, whereas
the core command-line functionality tends to be much more homogeneous.

I get these people need to make a living, but it annoys me to no end to
see article after article after article after article which just
rehashes the same stuff over and over and over again. Slop.


I look forward to the next "new" article on how to use "find".

Next, an article on how you can put butter on toast.

The gun magazines got a couple of decades of copy debating which is
better, 9 mm or .45 ACP. I've noticed another pattern in print magazines, regardless of the technology. They start with articles appealing to n00bs. As time goes on the articles become more focused on intermediates, and eventually advanced users. They hit a wall where there is little left to say, so they cycle back to n00bs,

I don't care that there is stuff for noobs.

Its that all this stuff is already written and up there. The issue is
people are rewriting the same thing over and over with all the old stuff
still there, but buried under the "newer" slop.
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On 07/06/2026 12:43, Borax Man wrote:

I don't care that there is stuff for noobs.

Its that all this stuff is already written and up there. The issue is
people are rewriting the same thing over and over with all the old stuff still there, but buried under the "newer" slop.

Hear! Hear!

The number of you tube video recycling old cut and pasted bits used
several times with random photos and an appalling AI voice-over...

Really, there is very little need for 'new' stuff at all.
--
Climate is what you expect but weather is what you get.
Mark Twain

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On 6/7/26 07:43, Borax Man wrote:

On 2026-06-03, rbowman <[email protected]> wrote:

On Wed, 3 Jun 2026 11:07:49 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:

On 2026-06-02, Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]d> wrote:

Jack Wallen makes some good points in this list of basic Linux concepts >>>> worth mastering
<https://www.zdnet.com/article/things-you-need-to-master-to-become-a-

linux-pro/>.

Yes, you can do a lot of things through the point-and-click GUI. But
that is mostly just a bunch of front-ends on command-line/scripting
tools that do all the actual work. Also, GUIs vary a lot from one
distro to another, or even one distro installation to another, whereas >>>> the core command-line functionality tends to be much more homogeneous.

I get these people need to make a living, but it annoys me to no end to
see article after article after article after article which just
rehashes the same stuff over and over and over again. Slop.


I look forward to the next "new" article on how to use "find".

Next, an article on how you can put butter on toast.

The gun magazines got a couple of decades of copy debating which is
better, 9 mm or .45 ACP. I've noticed another pattern in print magazines,
regardless of the technology. They start with articles appealing to n00bs. >> As time goes on the articles become more focused on intermediates, and
eventually advanced users. They hit a wall where there is little left to
say, so they cycle back to n00bs,

I don't care that there is stuff for noobs.

Hey, ya gotta start SOMEWHERE ! Not as if the space aliens
one day just beam code/systems secrets into yer brain.

9mm-vs-45acp ? "Depends". I tend to think of 9s as pistols
for people who are really shitty shots :-)

Its that all this stuff is already written and up there. The issue is
people are rewriting the same thing over and over with all the old stuff still there, but buried under the "newer" slop.

Good Old Days ... there was BYTE magazine - lots of GOOD
and oft DETAILED stuff. Ciarcia branched off with his own
hardware-oriented mag. Dr. Dobb's Journal ... liked that.
Fair selection for any level of interest and skill.

Are or recently WERE some pretty fair ones for Linux/UNIX.

MOST 'computer magazines' (hardly such a thing now) are
pretty dumbed-down ... point-n-click guides for Winders
Joe .... sad.

Depressing list of what we've LOST :

https://philharris.co.uk/AllSystems/archive.org/details/computermagazines.html


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On Sun, 7 Jun 2026 23:11:15 -0400, c186282 wrote:

Good Old Days ... there was BYTE magazine - lots of GOOD and oft
DETAILED stuff. Ciarcia branched off with his own hardware-oriented
mag. Dr. Dobb's Journal ... liked that.
Fair selection for any level of interest and skill.

I did resubscribe to Circuit Cellar. It's about the same as it always was
with newer technology of course. I used to look forward to Dr. Dobbs but eventually unsubscribed when each month focused on a particular theme and
I was only interested in a couple issues per year.

There were a couple of 'professional' magazines I liked but they slowly
faded out. The subscriptions were free so the income was from advertisers
who may have found they weren't getting the bang for the buck.

Motorcycle Consumer News was ad free which gave the the ability to review products freely. It was terminated abruptly, surprising both the employees
and subscribers. It was published by BowTie, which I assumed referred to
the Chevy logo but most of the magazines were about pets, like 'Ferrets Magazine'.
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On 6/8/26 10:02, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 7 Jun 2026 23:11:15 -0400, c186282 wrote:

Good Old Days ... there was BYTE magazine - lots of GOOD and oft
DETAILED stuff. Ciarcia branched off with his own hardware-oriented
mag. Dr. Dobb's Journal ... liked that.
Fair selection for any level of interest and skill.

I did resubscribe to Circuit Cellar.

Also did ... still have a number of them stashed around.
GOOD stuff. If you wanted to know how it REALLY works at
the low level, Steve would tell you.

It's about the same as it always was
with newer technology of course. I used to look forward to Dr. Dobbs but eventually unsubscribed when each month focused on a particular theme and
I was only interested in a couple issues per year.

Did get a bit "thematic" ... but still, collectively,
a great resource. LOADS of great, hyper-detailed,
journals back In The Day.

There were a couple of 'professional' magazines I liked but they slowly
faded out. The subscriptions were free so the income was from advertisers
who may have found they weren't getting the bang for the buck.

Well, I was willing to pay for Good Stuff ... but the
volume of Good Stuff kept getting smaller.

Motorcycle Consumer News was ad free which gave the the ability to review products freely. It was terminated abruptly, surprising both the employees and subscribers. It was published by BowTie, which I assumed referred to
the Chevy logo but most of the magazines were about pets, like 'Ferrets Magazine'.

Um, not my main interest.

But again, real Hands On info keeps getting less
and less and pushed further off the mainstream.
Try page #15 of your Goog or Duck or whatever
search.

Somebody somewhere doesn't WANT us to know.

So they can SELL info to "selected specialists".

Hey, 'capitalism' DOES have side effects. 'Socialism'
has others. Both kinda suck. The General Pop just gets
stupider and stupider.

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