Inside a Data Centre – Computerphile

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Sep, 09, 2015
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Go Programming

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Aug, 21, 2015
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I was one of the first people to download and install the go programming language from Google. What appealed to me was that it was that Ken Thompson and Rob Pike of UNIX fame were on the development team for the language. As described, it’s a systems programming language but with a scripting style of […]

IBM LinuxOne

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Aug, 17, 2015
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IBM Z Series for Linux Virtulization IBM said LinuxONE Emperor can scale up to 8,000 virtual machines or thousands of containers, which would be the most for any single Linux system. I can’t wait to come across one of these

Coding Music

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Jun, 25, 2015
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I’m upgrading some Linux systems today. I write some automation scripts for this stuff. Anyway, psychedelic trance mixes are perfect for this. QUICKY SCRIPT: #!/bin/sh ############################################ # BiffSocko # LinuxUpgrade.sh # # perform linux upgrade using our own # repo and the group security repo ############################################ LOGFILE=”/tmp/upgrade.log” ############################################# # function […]

Digital Ocean

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Jun, 10, 2015
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Hey all, a little history of biffsocko.com – The site started in the late 1990’s. I was working as a consultant (part-time) for the Nassau County Library System. It wasn’t long after I started, that I commandeered an old Sun Sparc 5 that wasn’t being used for anything and made the first iteration of biffsocko.com. […]

New Projects

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Apr, 11, 2015
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I’ve been goofing around with a few things. Keep checking http://drop.biffsocko.com/ – you’ll start seeing a few odds and ends up there in a few weeks