So little input, so much output As any regular Unix user can tell you, there are three primary “streams” in which programs are fed and output data. STDIN, which by default is the keyboard. STDOUT, which by default is your terminal/screen, and STDERR, which by default is also your terminal/screen. In addition [...]
By now nearly everyone on the planet has heard or used the term “dot com”. Popularized by the so-named bubble of the late 90′s, “dot-com” is now a common moniker describing everything from new Internet start-up companies to shady guys in Australia! So most people these days have heard of .com. You’ve probably used .org [...]
PHP has been an Internet mainstay for well over a decade. Originally created to make boring, static home pages more dynamic and interesting (factoid: PHP originally stood for Personal Home Pages!) it is now nearly ubiquitous in deployment, installed on over one million web servers all over the planet. Much of PHP’s success can [...]
Taking sides in the great virtualization debate: If you’re looking to virtualize a server of your own or to pick up a VPS, you’ll probably be picking between these two staples of the virtualized world. Each technology has its pros and cons, and your decision may change based on your needs as a sysadmin or [...]
In order to keep things consistent out there on the webs, we’ve decided to update our dedicated server naming scheme. Starting soon, all new dedicated server hosts will be named ‘hsdsX.linuxfix.com’, where ‘X’ is the server number. This shouldn’t effect any of your services, and any personal domain names you may have pointing to your [...]