A small selection of the most useful features:

• Free. What more is there to say?
• Tabs and Horizontal / Vertical split panels finally bring the full power of native Unix/Linux terminal emulators to Windows
• Integrated X server. MobaXterm comes with an integrated X Server. Everything is set up correctly out-of-the-box. X11 forwarding means you can simply SSH to a remote machine and start X11 programs. It supports displaying remote X11 windows as native windows or you can run the X Server ina separate tab/window.
• Session Management makes it easy to quickly connect to the machine you want.
• Integrated SFTP when SSHing to a remote machine means you don't have to start a separate SFTP/SCP session. Just browse, upload and download remote files from the left side of the SSH session.
• Many supported services, such as SSH, Telnet, local Linux/Cygwin terminal, local Windows command prompt, RSH, XDMCP, RDP, VNC, FTP, etc.
• Session multiplexing provides a quick method of running commands on multiple machines at the same time.
• SSH bouncing through a gateway SSH server means no more SSHing from machine to machine.
• Cygwin environment so you can actually get some work done natively on Windows. Batteries, bells, whistles and kitchen sinks (as well as games) included: full unix environment with tools like grep, find, vim, etc, etc, etc.

There are countless more features. This is the terminal emulator app I always hoped Putty would become. Of all the different shells around Putty, separate SSH connection managers and terminals I've tried, this is by far the best one.

I've tried many apps. Instapaper, Diigo, Readability and a few others. All of them suck.

Some suck because they don't include inline images from articles in the offline version. Some suck because they're not free, some suck because the don't extract just the article text but make the entire webpage available offline, which doesn't really work on my tiny screen. Others suck because they don't sync properly.

And then there was Pocket. It includes inline images in the offline version, but it doesn't include the rest of a webpage. If it can't reliably detect where the article starts or ends, it makes the entire page available offline. Even on my tiny screen, it still manages to make offline webpages very readable. It's free, and it has no limits on how many articles you can make available offline. It can also make images and videos available for offline viewing.

Pocket is by far the best option for reading offline content on your smartphone / tablet. Get it here, you won't be disappointed.

Online POSIX 2008 (EEE Std 1003.1-2008) standard

There are four main parts:

• The Base Definitions (XBD): The basics of a POSIX-compliant system.
• The System Interfaces (XSH): What POSIX-compliant systems offer to programs. I.e. programming in C (stdlib)
• The Shell & Utilities (XCU): How a POSIX-compliant shell and system utilities behave.
• The Rationale (XRAT): Why they decided to do things the way they did.

Some Do's and Dont's:

• Read the Shell Command Language section so you know how the shell actually works. Surprisingly many shell scripters apparently have no idea how the shell really works, and get results through trial and error (which inevitably leads to buggy shell scripts.)
• Write POSIX Basic Regular Expressions
• Write POSIX Extended Regular Expressions if you really must
• Don't use or overwrite POSIX Environment reserved words when using variables.
• Use Shell & Utilities → Utilities as a reference guide on what will work on just about every Unix system.

Finally, read Bash Pitfalls to learn why your shell scripting sucks.

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• Part 4

BeamItDown Software and the iFlow Reader will cease operations as of May 31, 2011. We absolutely do not want to do this, but Apple has made it completely impossible for anyone but Apple to make a profit selling contemporary ebooks on any iOS device.

If you're a company, and you do this:

We bet everything on Apple and iOS and then Apple killed us by changing the rules in the middle of the game.

you need to have your head examined :-) This is not the first time this has happened, and it will most certainly not be the last time. Apple will do anything it can to make a buck over other company's back!

Not just the company is being royally screwed over by Apple:

Many of you have purchased books and would like to keep them. You may still be able to read them using iFlow Reader although we cannot guarantee that it will work beyond May 31, 2011 [...] your computer which will let you access them with Adobe Digital Editions or any other ebook application that is compatible with Adobe DRM protected epubs.

So iFlowReader's have probably also lost all their ebooks because they had DRM on them. DRM (Digital Rights Management) is a technology which restricts media to a certain application or device; opening it in third-party applications is usually impossible.

And that's why I have never and will never buy an Apple product, or use any media that is DRM protected.

The course is aimed at people who have a strong sense that what Einstein did changed everything. However they do not know enough physics to understand what he did and why it was so important. The course presents just enough of Einstein's physics to give students an independent sense of what he achieved and what he did not achieve.

This article describes a simple way on how to create a home made debian package and include it into a local package repository. Although we could use a existing Debian/Ubuntu package, we will start from scratch by creating our own minimalistic unofficial debian package. Once our package is ready, we will include it into our local package repository. This article illustrates very simplistic approach of creating debian package, however it may serve as a template in many different scenarios.

The course is devoted to creation of 64-bit applications in C/C++ language and is intended for the Windows developers who use Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010 environment. Developers working with other 64-bit operating systems will learn much interesting as well. The course will consider all the steps of creating a new safe 64-bit application or migrating the existing 32-bit code to a 64-bit system.

I have a laptop that travels with me to work as well as being used at home. I have a number of network CIFS mounts that I like to have available when I am at home, so I have them set to "auto" in /etc/fstab. [...] The problem is that when I shift locations, I need proper handling of those network mounts.

Handling network mounts on a very mobile laptop.