technology:unix

My $0.02 on Is Worse Better ?
▻https://hackernoon.com/my-0-02-on-is-worse-better-e240784ed6a7?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3---4

There is a famous long-running discussion in software engineering that goes under the title “Worse is Better”. I’ve never gotten my two cents in, so I thought I’d talk about it a bit here. This is also an opportunity to try to apply the perspective from my experience with software development at Microsoft.This discussion was first framed by Richard Gabriel. He characterized the two different approaches as the “MIT” vs. the “New Jersey” approach. These labels came from the approach taken by the Common Lisp and Scheme groups out of MIT and the contrasting Unix approach coming out of Bell Labs in New Jersey. I found the discussion especially interesting because I did 4 internships at Bell Labs while getting my BS and MS at MIT. So I managed to cross over both schools of thought. Of course, Unix (...)

#software-development #software-thoughts #software-essays #programming #worse-is-better

5 Best Text Editors for Programmers
▻https://hackernoon.com/5-best-text-editors-for-programmers-3f54ef51d5ae?source=rss----3a8144eab

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1. AtomAtom is a free and open-source text and source code editor for macOS, Linux, and #microsoft Windows with support for plug-ins written in Node.js, and embedded Git Control, developed by GitHub. Atom is a desktop application built using web technologies.2. VimVim is a highly configurable text editor for efficiently creating and changing any kind of text. It is included as “vi” with most UNIX systems and with Apple OS X.3. VS CodeVisual Studio Code is a source code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and macOS. It includes support for debugging, embedded Git control, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, and code refactoring.4. Notepad++Notepad++ is a text editor and source code editor for use with Microsoft Windows. It supports tabbed editing, which (...)

#vim #software-development #technology #web-development

Wine 4.0 Released, Here’s How to Install it on Ubuntu
▻https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/01/wine-4-0

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Wine 4.0 is now available to download, letting users run Windows apps and games on Linux and other UNIX-based systems. The popular Windows compatibility layer — Wine stands for ‘Wine Is Not an Emulator’ — uncorks several glasses worth of new features and improvements. It’s been in development for just under a year, Wine 4.0 […] This post, Wine 4.0 Released, Here’s How to Install it on Ubuntu, was written by Joey Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.

Is the Linux philosophy still relevant in 2019? | Opensource.com
▻https://opensource.com/article/19/1/linux-philosophy-poll

The philosophy outlined in these books was critical to the original design of Unix and its modern descendant, Linux. That groundbreaking design and its creative implementation made it possible for us to have the amazing open source operating system we have today. Without the concept of data streams, the use of pipes to modify and transform those data streams, the idea that “everything is a file,” and so much more, we would be reduced to struggling with a command line even less powerful than the old IBM or MS-DOS. Even DOS used pipes but never provided powerful utilities like the GNU Core Utilities that we take for granted today and give us access to the most basic of system functions.

pass, the standard unix password manager
►https://www.passwordstore.org
#Password management should be simple and follow Unix philosophy. With pass, each password lives inside of a gpg encrypted file whose filename is the title of the website or resource that requires the password. These encrypted files may be organized into meaningful folder hierarchies, copied from computer to computer, and, in general, manipulated using standard command line file management utilities.

CLion started 2018.3 EAP by adding initial remote dev support
▻http://isocpp.org/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=All+Posts&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fisocpp.org%2Fblog%2F2

CLion started 2018.3 Early Access Program with one of the most awaited feature request – remote development support

Stay local, let your IDE do remote work for you! by Anastasia Kazakova

From the article:

We’ve started with a particular set-up, though we do plan to cover and come to up with more cases in the future. So we are calling the current support state – initial: Local client machine: Unix-like (macOS, Linux) Remote host: Linux Sources location: originally on the local host, CLion will synchronize to the remote machine for you Project model: only CMake projects rsync is required to be installed on a remote host

#News,_Product_News,

Why Developers Should NOT Use MacBook Pro
▻https://hackernoon.com/why-developers-should-not-use-macbook-pro-3b6a4aeeee64?source=rss----3a8

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About ten years ago there was an article claiming that “Every Developer should have a MacBook Pro”, which listed a bunch of reasons, for example:Better hardware/OS design. MacBook Pro has the most usable touch pad which can completely replace your mouse. Some OS features are focusing on convenience as well, such as the spotlight.Unix-like. the convenient, native terminal makes it possible to use almost every piece of software from Unix/Linux.Amazing software ecosystem. Apps for OSX are usually designed better, much more convenient than apps on Windows, especially the apps for designers. App Store also makes software purchase much easier.Yes these reasons are all true, even today. I would still be swiping happily on my touch pad, using spotlight to find my apps, making diagrams with (...)

#computers #mac #linux #tech #development

​Mosaic turns 25: The beginning of the modern web | ZDNet
▻https://www.zdnet.com/article/mosaics-birthday-25-years-of-the-modern-web

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In the beginning, the web, or WEB as it was known then, was a mystery. Like gopher and archie, it was a character-based internet tool interface that only the proud, the few, and the early internet users knew about. Then, everything changed. First, the Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX) made it easy for anyone to get on the net, and then two graduate students, Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, created the first popular web browser: Mosaic.

Mosaic’s first beta was released for Unix operating systems running X Window on January 23, 1993. It wasn’t the first graphical web browser. That honor goes to ViolaWWW, a Unix browser, although some argue the even more obscure Erwise should get the credit for being the first web browser. The early browser Cello takes the prize for being the first Windows graphical web browser. No matter who really gets the credit for being the very first web browser, no one can argue Mosaic was the first popular web browser.

#Mosaic #Histoire_numérique

7 Awesome Open Source Analytics Software For Linux and Unix - nixCraft
▻https://www.cyberciti.biz/open-source/7-awesome-open-source-analytics-weblog-analysis-softwares

eb analytics is nothing but the measuring web traffic. It is not limited to measuring web traffic. It includes:

Analysis
Data collection
Reporting of web data for purposes of understanding and optimizing web pages
Google Analytics is the most widely used cloud-based web analytics service. However, your data is locked into Google Eco-system. If you want 100% data ownership, try the following open source analytics software to get information about the number of visitors to your website and the number of page views. The information is useful for market research and understanding popularity trends on your website.

Know Shell Scripting !!!
▻https://hackernoon.com/know-shell-scripting-202b2fbe03a8?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3---4

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What is shell scripting? It is writing a series of commands for the shell to execute them. What is a shell? An operating system has 2 major components Shell and #kernel, what shell does is it interprets the commands and then executes them.In this article, I will take you through the journey of writing shell/bash scripts. What is a shell script? It is a script or a file with a series of command written in it that can be read and executed by the shell. A shell script has a .sh extension. Bash stands for( Bourne Again SHell). Bash is not same as shell. It is the most used UNIX shell. In this article we will be writing the bash scripts.Let’s create the simplest of script.We will create a file, first.sh (you can use any text editor)The first line will be #! /bin/sh (it tells the interpreter that (...)

#shell-script #heroku #bash-script #shellscripting

Speeding up the Build of C and C++ Projects
▻http://isocpp.org/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=All+Posts&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fisocpp.org%2Fblog%2F2

Many programmers know firsthand that C and C++ program builds very long. Someone solves this problem by sword-fighting at build time, someone is going to the kitchen to “grab some coffee”. This article is for those who are tired of this, and who decided it is time to do something about it.

Speeding up the Build of C and C++ Projects by Phillip Khandeliants

From the article:

If your operating system uses ELF format object files (Unix-like systems), you can replace the GNU ld linker with GNU gold. GNU gold comes with binutils starting from the version 2.19, and is activated by the flag -fuse-ld=gold. In CMake it can be activated, for example, by the following code.

#Articles_&_Books,

PIXLS.US - Faces of Open Source
▻https://pixls.us/articles/faces-of-open-source

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Peter really (ahem) throws a light on many amazing luminaries from not only the Free/Open Source Software community, but in some cases the history and roots of all modern computing. He has managed to coordinate portrait sessions with many people that may be unassuming to a layperson, but take a moment to read any of the short bios on the site and the gravity of the contributions from the subjects to modern computing becomes apparent.

Intéressant cette notion de « communauté » des développeurs au travers d’une manière similaire de se comporter.

Everyone that I’ve photographed has been absolutely wonderful. I mean, that’s the first thing about this community: it’s a very gracious community. Everybody was very gracious with their time, and eager to participate. I think people recognize that this is a community they belong to and they really want me to be a part of it, which is really great.

So, I enjoyed my time with everybody. Everybody brought a different, interesting story about things. The UNIX crew from Bell Labs had particularly colorful stories, very interesting sort of historical tidbits about UNIX and Free Software.

Did your working in open source teach you anything beyond computer code in some way? Was there an influence from the people you may have worked around, or the ethos of Free Software in general that stuck with you? Working with this crowd, was there a takeaway for you beyond just the photographic aspects of it?

Absolutely! First of all it’s an incredibly inspiring group of people. This is a group of people that have dedicated, in some cases most of, their lives to the development of software that they give away to the world, and don’t monetize themselves. The work they’re doing is effectively a donation to humanity. That’s incredibly inspiring when you look at how much time goes into these projects and how much time this group of people spends on that. It’s a very humbling thing.

I don’t think it’s an obvious answer that Apple or Google or somebody else would have just come up with this without the open source [contributions]. This stuff is so fundamental, it’s such a basic building block for everything that’s happening now. It may be responsible for the golden age that we’re seeing now. I think it is.

The average teenager they pick up and post a photo to Instagram - they don’t realize that there’s a hundred open source projects at work to make that possible.

#Histoire_numérique #Logiciel_libre #Photographie

2 awesome open source apps to share your terminal over the web – nixCraft
▻https://www.cyberciti.biz/open-source/2-apps-to-share-your-terminal-over-the-web

ant to share your terminal over the web for demo, learning or collaboration purpose? Try these two applications to share your terminal as a web application.

Please note that accepting input from remote clients is dangerous for most commands. When you need interaction with the TTY for some reasons, consider starting following tools with tmux or GNU Screen and run your command on it. Use following tools with trusted parties or inside VM. Let us see how to install and use gotty and ttyd on a Unix-like system.

Lynx Users Guide v2.7
▻http://www.neurophys.wisc.edu/comp/lynx_users_guide.html

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Bonus gratuit : Avec Lynx on est à totalement l’abri des scripts nocifs sur les pages web, enfin prèsque.

Lynx a un seul inconvénient : les pages qui ne marchent qu’àvec #javascript restent inaccessibles - mais ne faites pas confiance au message d’erreur qui s’affiche quand vous éteignez JS dans votre brouteur habituel ; assez souvent Lynx affiche joliment des pages web qui exigent du JS dans Chrome, Firefox et d’autres systèmes plus « modernes ».

Lynx is a fully-featured World Wide Web (WWW) client for users running cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices (e.g., vt100 terminals, vt100 emulators running on PCs or Macs, or any other character-cell display). It will display Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) documents containing links to files on the local system, as well as files on remote systems running http, gopher, ftp, wais, nntp, finger, or cso/ph/qi servers, and services accessible via logins to telnet, tn3270 or rlogin accounts (see URL Schemes Supported by Lynx). Current versions of Lynx run on Unix and VMS.

Lynx can be used to access information on the WWW, or to build information systems intended primarily for local access. For example, Lynx has been used to build several Campus Wide Information Systems (CWIS). In addition, Lynx can be used to build systems isolated within a single LAN.

Pour le #mail c’est pareil, je redécouvre #Mutt qui est très puissant aussi.

The Mutt E-Mail Client
▻http://www.mutt.org

“All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less.” -me, circa 1995

web browser - Using Lynx on potentially malicious websites - Information Security Stack Exchange
▻https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/97873/using-lynx-on-potentially-malicious-websites

in theory, you are still vulnerable. Even in Lynx there are still components that parse HTML, interact with the network, keep track of cookies, etc (tip: use curl or wget to just download the page without even parsing it to be even more careful). That is still quite a big attack surface, though I would consider it safe enough at this point. Maybe not safe enough against a targeted attack from a powerful attacker, but definitely safe enough for random Android websites.

Deluge of Browser Security Issues Drives Mass Migration | Netcraft
▻https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2009/04/01/deluge_of_browser_security_issues_drives_mass_migration.html

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April Erste, Public Relations Manager at the First National Bank of Oki Koki, told Netcraft that users are migrating to Lynx because of its speed and advanced security features. She added: “Lynx has not once suffered a buffer overflow in its image processing, and indeed has suffered no security vulnerabilities at all in the last 2 years.” By comparison, the most recent Firefox security update was only 4 days ago.

The bank also notes that Telnet remains popular with a small group of its customers. Although it lacks the sophisticated user interface of Lynx, many security experts argue that Telnet is significantly more secure and has the largest installed base of any browser.

Erste said that while the bank is dedicated to providing an accessible online banking experience, some customers still report difficulties when trying to make HTTPS requests through Telnet without the aid of an extended keyboard layout.

#humour

Lynx Information
▻http://lynx.browser.org

Many user questions are answered in the online help provided with Lynx. Press the ’?’ key to find this help.

LYNX – The Text Web-Browser
▻http://lynx.invisible-island.net

This is the toplevel page for the Lynx software distribution site.

The current development sources have the latest version of Lynx available (development towards 2.8.9).
The main help page for lynx-current is online; the current User Guide is part of the online documentation.
The most recent stable release is lynx2.8.8.

P.S. Lynx marche très bien sous Windows ;-)

#WWW #censure #privatisation

“Certain simple programs, like glxgears, don’t mind being run with time flowing in reverse! Most however don’t” - ▻https://github.com/DavidBuchanan314/TARDIS #time #Unix #Linux

Who had an e-mail address in Soviet Union ? – Poussières d’empire
▻https://villesfermees.hypotheses.org/446

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This map was made with data extracted from the Soviet UUCP map, in its summer 1991 version. The Unix-to-Unix Copy Protocol (UUCP) refers to a suite of computer programs and protocols allowing remote execution of commands and and based on mutual cooperation. Reaching a remote computer in UUCP net required to know exactly the path data would follow. For example, reaching a computer located in Moscow from Novosibirsk required to know addresses of the machines the data would go through between these two cities. As the shape of the network was constantly changing, an effort rapidly emerged to build a map of the connections between machines. Each system administrator would submit, by e-mail, a list of the systems to which theirs would connect, along with a ranking for each such connection. These submitted map entries were processed by an automatic program that combined them into a single set of files describing all connections in the network. These files were then published monthly in a newsgroup dedicated to this purpose. The UUCP map files could then be used by software such as « pathalias » to compute the best route path from one machine to another for mail, and to supply this route automatically. The UUCP maps also listed contact information for the sites, and so gave sites seeking to join UUCPNET an easy way to find prospective neighbors.
In Soviet Union, UUCP map was managed by engineers working at the Kurchatov Institute for nuclear researches. They were closely working with people from Relcom, the first Soviet ISP.

#ex-urss #internet #soviétisme

pigshell - unix the web
▻http://pigshell.com

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Resources on the web are represented as files in a hierarchical file system. These include public web pages as well as your data on Facebook, Google drive and Picasa albums. Construct pipelines of simple unix-style commands to filter, transform and display your files.

#web #outils #cli #bizarre #cartographie #data

hgrep
▻https://www.npmjs.com/package/hgrep

hgrep is a Unix CLI tool which lets you select elements with jQuery/CSS syntax and print either the HTML serialization of the selection, or a specified attribute of each element, or their text representation.

For example, to print all the story links from the HN front page:

curl -s https://news.ycombinator.com | hgrep -a href ".athing .title > a"

#OSMNames open-source project which provides a basic place search / geocoding functionality. It is a lightweight search system powered by full-text engine with world-wide coverage. At the moment it is limited to place names like streets, towns, cities, administrative units, countries, etc.. It can be extended in future with other place types like lake or mountain names and even with POIs. The enhancement with postal addresses (house numbers and zip codes) is also possible.

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▻http://osmnames.org

The core of the OSMNames project is the pre-processed data. It comes in easy to handle text format, the #TSV (tab separated value). This allows filtering with UNIX text processing tools (grep, sed, awk, less, cut, etc.) and direct indexing via a full-text search engine.

The project comes with an open-source server software providing a place search API suitable for a basic #geocoder with autocomplete functionality. The server is written in Python and is powered by the high-performance C++ open-source full-text engine called #Sphinx Search.

Here you can download the pre-generated data with over 21 million place names for the whole planet.

▻http://osmnames.org/download

The open-source code for generating the data is available in the repository ▻https://github.com/osmnames/osmnames

The Place Search API used in this website is implemented with the open-source project available at ▻https://github.com/klokantech/osmnames-sphinxsearch

Doc : ▻http://osmnames.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

Upgrade your SSH keys for you own security. Bye bye DSA, welcome Ed25519
▻https://blog.g3rt.nl/upgrade-your-ssh-keys.html

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Whether you’re a software developer or a sysadmin, I bet you’re using SSH keys. Pushing your commits to Github or managing your Unix systems, it’s best practice to do this over SSH with public key authentication rather than passwords. However, as time flies, many of you are using older keys and not aware of the need to generate fresh ones to protect your privates much better. In this post I’ll demonstrate how to transition to an Ed25519 key smoothly, why you would want this and show some tips and tricks on the way there.

Tl;dr: Generate your new key with ssh-keygen -o -a 100 -t ed25519, specify a strong passphrase and read further if you need a smooth transition.

I’m planning to publish some more posts on SSH tips & tricks, so keep an eye on my blog for more. This post will focus (...)

Using #fonts with node-mapnik
▻https://github.com/mapnik/node-mapnik/blob/master/docs/Using-Fonts.md#global

Mapnik supports rendering custom fonts from a variety of formats. Fonts can either be registered globally or per #map. Normally global font registration is what you need, but per map registration can help reduce memory usage and increase performance in specialized cases.

/usr/share/fonts/ and /usr/local/share/fonts/ on other Unix systems

#mapnik #kosmtik

Cron best practices
▻https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/cron-best-practices

The time-based job scheduler cron(8) has been around since Version 7 Unix, and its crontab(5) syntax is familiar even for people who don’t do much Unix system administration. It’s standardised, reasonably flexible, simple to configure, and works reliably, and so it’s trusted by both system packages and users to manage many important tasks.

However, like many older Unix tools, cron(8)‘s simplicity has a drawback: it relies upon the user to know some detail of how it works, and to correctly implement any other safety checking behaviour around it. Specifically, all it does is try and run the job at an appropriate time, and email the output. For simple and unimportant per-user jobs, that may be just fine, but for more crucial system tasks it’s worthwhile to wrap a little extra infrastructure (...)

pas tout tout récent, mais pas moins intéressant:

Hackers Use 900 CCTV Cameras to Launch DDoS Attacks

▻https://www.incapsula.com/blog/cctv-ddos-botnet-back-yard.html

this assault consisted of HTTP GET floods that peaked at around 20,000 RPS, with its traffic originating from roughly 900 CCTV cameras spread around the globe. Their target was a rarely-used asset of a large cloud service, catering to millions of users worldwide.

[...]

All compromised devices were running embedded #Linux with #BusyBox—a package of striped-down common Unix utilities bundled into a small executable, designed for systems with limited resources.

#DDoS
#IoT
#Incapsula

The goal of the kopimashin is to make the audio track the most copied in the world and while doing so bankrupting the record industry.

Project d’art et superbe foutage de la gueule du RIAA (Record Industry Association of America) : le co-fondateur de Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde, a crée une machine « kopimashin » qui copie infiniment un morceau de musique ("Crazy" de Gnarls Barkley), mais sans le garder. La machine affiche le nombre de copies effectuées et le coût / perte occasionnée, basé sur $1.25 par copie.

La machine est basée sur un Rasberry Pi et du code Python qui se charge du téléchargement. Il fait 100 copies par seconde.

Son but est de dénoncer le système du RIAA qui est le « damage estimation system ». Les 8 millions téléchargements effectués représentent, selon ce système, 9.1 million EUR de dommages par jour.
Il compte en créer 13 de ces machines.

▻https://vimeo.com/148955816

▻http://konsthack.se/portfolio/kh000-kopimashin

The Kopimashin creates an endless amount of copies of a specific audio track (gnarls barkley’s crazy). The audio track is copied to /dev/null, a unix data pipe for avoiding permanent storage. The Kopimashins lcd display consists of three rows of information, the serial number of the mashin, amount of copies created and the dollar value it represents in losses for the record labels (Downtown Records / Warner Music), currently represented by USD1,25 per copied piece.

#TPB #The_Pirate_Bay #Pirate_Bay

#Error_451

Comparing BSD and Linux
▻https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/comparing-bsd-and-linux.html

So what is really the difference between, say, Debian Linux and FreeBSD? For the average user, the difference is surprisingly small: Both are UNIX® like operating systems. Both are developed by non-commercial projects (this does not apply to many other Linux distributions, of course). In the following section, we will look at BSD and compare it to Linux. The description applies most closely to FreeBSD, which accounts for an estimated 80% of the BSD installations, but the differences from NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFlyBSD are small.

Introduction to #Circos, Features and Uses // CIRCOS Circular Genome Data #Visualization
►http://circos.ca

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WHAT IS CIRCOS?
CIRCULAR VISUALIZATION

Circos is a software package for visualizing data and information. It visualizes data in a circular layout — this makes Circos ideal for exploring relationships between objects or positions. There are other reasons why a circular layout is advantageous, not the least being the fact that it is attractive.

Circos is ideal for creating publication-quality infographics and illustrations with a high data-to-ink ratio, richly layered data and pleasant symmetries. You have fine control each element in the figure to tailor its focus points and detail to your audience.
[…]
Circos is free software, licensed under GPL.

Circos is written in Perl, can be deployed on any operating system for which Perl is available (e.g. Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other UNIX flavours) and produces bitmap (PNG) and vector (SVG) images using plain text configuration and input files.