The Solid State Drives that are now available, with no moving parts compared to a traditional hard disk are the faster alternative to the traditional hard disk drives that are taking over as very fast boot drives. They do not have the capacity of a traditional hard disk, an SSD is available in a 128 … Read more
This is the PDP-8 computer. This beast had 4 Kilobytes of RAM and was quite the purchase back in the day. You could program in FORTRAN on this machine, entering code with a teletype input. The more powerful PDP-9 had twice the RAM, 8 Kilobytes to be precise and cost only 35,000 dollars. But with … Read more
Even more useful Linux command-line tips and information How large in total are the contents of a folder? This command will print that for you. This is the total disk usage of all files in the current folder. ubuntu ~ $ sudo du -ackh /usr | tail -n 1 2.7G totalubuntu ~ $ sudo du … Read more