A quick script to pull up famous quotations based on keywords or phrased you provide on the Unix or Linux CLI.

Finally, an answer you can give your kids when they get up the nerve to ask :)

Ubuntu is a popular and widely used Linux distribution today. Ubuntu is simple, easy to use, and user-friendly. Its my personal favorite GNU/Linux distribution. Ubuntu is the best alternative to Windows operating system. If you consider switching from Windows to GNU/Linux, I would personally recommend Ubuntu.

This tutorial shows how you can use GnuPG to secure and verify data on your Linux box but the first part is relevant for Windows users too.

Like nearly everyone else these days, I use computers to write, read email, browse the web, store music and photos, and generally organize my life. Unlike most people, I'm using a free operating system, rather than Microsoft's Windows/Vista, or Apple's Mac OS. Specifically, I'm using Ubuntu, a popular distribution of GNU/Linux.

mingus is a music theory package for Python. This post properly announces version 0.3 and gets into some of the issues that were dealt with while developing this release.

Networked storage is great for doing backups and sharing files between a variety of machines. Over the weekend I added an old 60GB hard disk to an even older 386 PC and built my own. It's surprisingly easy!

Introduction to generating number combinations within fixed numeric boundaries.