The good, the bad and the confusing of determining cpu properties on various nix systems

I'm stubborn, no doubt about. I wanted a particular look and I got it. Weren't easy, not in the sense of doing it, in the sense of finding out how to do it. So here are my instructions.

The devil they say is in details, even the simple Bash path variable can open some security problems on your box. Every Bash documentation out there warns us not leave '.' in the path (it matches current directory). They however don't seems to mention that leaving a dangling ':' (colon) at the beginning or the end of Bash $PATH does create the same security vulnerability.

Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. At the core of an operating system is the kernel. The kernel is the most fundamental program on the computer: It does all the basic housekeeping and lets you start other programs.

What will they think of us when they find our garbage in the future? ;)

"I’m happy to tell you that the on-line help system for the OCaml toplevel has just been committed to our new git repository. So what does this mean? ..."

Maybe that Linux system sluggishness is being caused by the CPU? It's worth a look :)

Ubuntu 8.04 upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10, press:
Alt+F2 and type: update-manager -d

into the command box. Update manager should open up and tell you : New distribution release '8.10' is available. Click Upgrade and follow the on-screen instructions.