Friday, February 28, 2003

Root 101 - Concept of Root for Newbies Root 101 - Concept of Root for Newbies Posted by timothy on Thursday February 27, @12:22PM from the to-bookmark-for-friends dept. Fozz writes "One of my colleagues wrote this article explaining the concept of root/super user for Unix newbies. He wrote it after looking for information like it and not finding much. His analogy of Unix and an apartment complex is one of the best metaphors I've seen for understanding multi-user OSes." If you're running any variety of Unix, you've probably been forced to learn this pretty well already, but this is a very lucid explanation to point out to curious friends / co-workers who aren't so sure.  [Slashdot] 9:46:26 AM

David Davies d.a.davies@b.... Mobile blogging how-to guide [klogs] 9:44:51 AM

Synchronizing FTP Files with Perl. The author explains ftpsync, his script that automatically uploads changed files and directories from a local site. [Linux Journal] Pretty useful.  May be of help with things like CILP or other auto-changed areas of a site. 9:37:38 AM

iDisk Utility for Windows XP  iDisk Utility for Windows XP Posted by pudge on Friday February 28, @01:04AM from the something-about-windows dept. mister_tim writes " Apple has released an iDisk Utility for Windows XP. It could be useful under a mixed environment or those (like me) stuck using XP at work and such." Is there a way to mount iDisks on Linux, too?  [Slashdot] 9:34:23 AM