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Jamie Zawinski in Coders At Work

Jamie Zawinski is known about some things he has created. But, besides that, when he was asked about how he see himself he gave a really interesting answer: Seibel: That brings me to another of my standard questions: do you, as a programmer, think of yourself as a scientist or an engineer or an artist

What is programming?

‘ve finished reading “Coders at work” a series of interviews between @peterseibel and well-known programmers/coders/(etc). The first edition was in 2009. And in the preface you can read: Yet despite the millions of people who have written code, and the billions, if not trillions of lines of code written since the field began, it still

UNIX: A History and a Memoir

In the era of bright consultancy, where all things are opinionated, it’s difficult to find some refreshing ideas. For real it exists, but it is difficult to find. We are talking also about some people, who have the expertise of a field in Computer Science take time to say something about the route they have,

What is a bastion host?

Definition of Bastion Host A bastion host is a specific computer in a network that has the objective of not affecting another part of the system by the attack from outside the network. For Example, the internet. 

Are SSH and Bash the same? (Spoiler: No)

The thing is: when you start to run some console commands you notice that all the things you write in that place are not the same. Simple to understand, difficult to order each part in your head. I wondered at that time, What is the difference between SSH and Bash? This question was answered in

Connect Ubuntu in Virtual Box with ssh

After understanding the importance of a well understanding of ssh. It’s time to make our first practice connecting from our windows to a Ubuntu installed in a virtual machine in Virtual Box. You have to use the direction in the second red box. Useful Documentation: