HELLO WORLD
Hi, I’m Jason. My C.V. is a globe-trotting adventure through many areas of the IT world. I’ve been tinkering, troubleshooting, and teaching tech for longer than most servers have been online. From the bustling tech hub of The Research Triangle Park, NC to the serene landscapes and charm of Prague, I’ve left my footprint across the internet and on at least a couple continents.
AN UPDATE
There have been a lot of changes going on for me in the past few months. Without going onto a lot of details that I would rather not share, I’ve changed a lot in my personal and online life and I’ve taken on some new interests and possible changes in my future.
DISTROBOX IS AWESOME
What is Distrobox?
Distrobox is a project that I learned about a few months ago from Fedora magazine.
THE WONDERS OF MODERN LIFE
Last Friday, my wife and I packed up our car and drove 9.5 hours south from Prague, Czech Republic through Austria and Slovenia to a small coastal town in Croatian on the Adriatic sea. We used the Waze app on my Android phone for guidance all the way there. We stayed in an Airbnb that I found online. On the way to Croatia, we stopped outside Saltzburg, Austria for lunch. Just outside of Ljubliana, Slovenia, we topped up on diesel and had a drink and a short break.
USENET NEWSREADER REVIEWS
This is an idea that I’m playing around with. Here are some categories for any reviews. They could later depending on what I learn while doing the reviews.
LONG TIME NO POST
For the past year, I’ve been posting to a private server that I was running. Now that server is offline because I need to save money and so I’ll be writing here again.
INTRO TO NIP.IO (AND XIP.IO)
I’ve got a VM on my server whose IP address is 172.99.1.2. I can ssh using my test user, tux, by using:
GETTING HELP ON LINUX
Man
The man command is short for manual. It allows you to read the instruction manual for almost every command in Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Don’t know how to use an application? The first thing to do is to run the man command and then the name of the application.
DAPS IN A CONTAINER
DAPS is OpenSUSE’s “DocBook Authoring and Publishing Suite” that is used to build documentation for SUSE and OpenSUSE. It actually requires A LOT of dependencies when being installed and for that reason alone, it’s actually better to run it in a container. This is my image and how I use it.
WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE MOST IN MINIX?
I’m working on a couple of presentations and I wanted to share this nugget of joy with anyone who hasn’t actually read it.