A Smackerel of Opinion

I regularly use the tail command to look at the end of log files - generally I use the -f flag to follow (monitor and display) new entries ...

The fiemap ioctl() allows user space programmes to glean the extent information from a file's inode in a fairly direct and fast way. M...

Back to basics - here are a couple of quick-and-easy tools for seeing ACPI activity on linux. The first is acpi_listen (from the acpid packa...

The other week I E-mailed the BBC to grumble (in a very tongue-in-cheek manner) about the sign-off tag line in their Clickbits technology ne...