Penguins-On-Hudson

Linux & F.O.S.S. in the Hudson River Valley.

Penguins-On-Hudson is an advocacy program sponsored by Codefix Consulting to help promote Linux and F.O.S.S. (Free Open Source Software) in the lower Hudson River Valley.

Archive for May, 2007

A Linux Success Story

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

I’m working on a marketing letter, and I’ll be using one of my favorite success stories which is about Russ, owner of a small Internet service provider (ISP) providing web hosting, e-mail, and related services to his local community.
Once upon a time, I would listen to Russ complain of problems with his proprietary e-mail server, […]

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Managing Line Endings

Monday, May 21st, 2007

Moments ago I was asked to help figure out why a simple bash script was producing a “Bad interpreter” error on a Linux box. After checking that the bash interpreter was indeed where the script believed it was, I deduced that the problem was none other than the invisible gremlin that has plagued electronic text […]

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Digital Photography with Linux

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

During the summer of 1982, I borrowed a 35mm camera from my father and enrolled in a photography workshop; I took surprisingly decent photographs with that old Argus C3 and found that I very much enjoyed working in the darkroom as well. Still the oldest camera I own, the Argus has long been retired […]

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