There is something seriously wrong with the IT industry. It's so bad that I haven't managed to find a single industry with the same massive amount of stupidity, with the exception of perhaps the fashion industry. It's like the IT industry has been paralyzed in some strange kind of mass hypnosis. https://unixsheikh.com/articles/is-the-madness-ever-going-to-end.html
My mother turns 70, February this year, and she has been using Linux on the desktop for the past 21 years. My mother-in-law is 65, she has been using Linux on the desktop since 2015. https://unixsheikh.com/articles/my-70-year-old-mother-has-been-using-linux-on-the-desktop-for-the-past-21-years.html
As a response to my article So-called modern web developers are the culprits someone stated that my advice was outdated because today we make web apps, not websites. I will address that issue in this article. https://unixsheikh.com/articles/no-your-website-is-not-a-webapp-even-if-you-call-it-so.html
A mini tutorial in the usage of diff and patch. https://unixsheikh.com/tutorials/diff-and-patch.html
In connection with some corrupted files in CVS I decided that it was time to take a look on some other revision control systems. This article is a summary of my three day "journey" into the land of revision controlling. https://unixsheikh.com/articles/revision-control.html
This is a mini tutorial in how to figure out what applications are listening on your ports on GNU/Linux, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD. https://unixsheikh.com/tutorials/who-is-listening-on-my-ports.html
This is a mini tutorial in solving problems with the Apache webserver encoding specifications. https://unixsheikh.com/tutorials/wrong-default-encoding-on-the-apache-webserver.html
This is a small article on how to choose a good book on programming. The same method can be applied to other areas as well. It should be noted that the described method is my preferred method, it is not a universal method. https://unixsheikh.com/articles/choosing-a-good-book-on-programming.html
One day back in 2007 I was dribbling down some notes about programming languages and compilers with a special focus on the use of C, C++ and Ada. These are some of my dribbles. https://unixsheikh.com/articles/programming-in-c-cpp-and-ada.html
Currently I am using Mercurial revision control system to version control my programming files and written articles etc. Other important files I manually tar up and encrypt and upload to my backup server using sftp from OpenSSH. I decided that it was time to take a look at a better way to deal with my personal backups. https://unixsheikh.com/tutorials/choosing-a-new-backup-solution-duplicity-rdiff-backup-or-rsnapshot.html
