Use rolldice for full RPG features like modifiers and totals. This is the easiest way to roll a die in the terminal. Use shuf for quick, offline random rolls, and finally, you can use $RANDOM in bash ...

The sudo command lets users elevate their privileges to run admin tasks. But it's far from perfect. These tips can help.

But, if you did, they’d probably be reading this fun new book — Ubuntu Made Easy: A Project-Based Introduction to Linux, no starch press, 2012 is the most easy-to-read, properly pitched and fun Linux ...

Ah, so this is the reason why people don’t consider Linux user friendly. [Geeks Are Sexy] Linux Get the best tech, science, and culture news in your inbox daily. News from the future, delivered to ...

I’m a big fan of the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. One of the quotes from it that stands out in my head is, “Man fears the darkness, and so he scrapes away at the edges of it with fire.” For ...

You know who you are: the guy who doesn’t do Linux. Windows works fine, all of your software works under Windows, and things are much cooler when you don’t have to worry about all that command-line ...