My wife and I recently completed an epic almost 5 week long road trip in the western US. We originally planned an international trip for the month but.. Covid19 changed those plans. So we booked a road trip instead, originally planning for a week stay in Victoria British Columbia, a week stay in downtown Portland…
To Install on Debian or Ubuntu just enter the following: sudo apt install open-cobol Create your program with .cbl suffix for example vars.cbl and compile with cobc -free -x -o vars vars.cbl Download the following example cbl file with this link IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. VARS. DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. *> define a number with a…
top command displays Linux processes. It provides a dynamic real-time view of a running system i.e. actual process activity. By default, it displays the most CPU-intensive tasks running on the server and updates the list every five seconds. TOP hot keys t Displays summary information off and on m Displays memory information off and on…
df You can use df (display free disk space) to troubleshoot disk space issues. While running and maintaining your application on your machine, you might receive an error message signaling a lack of free space on the host. While disk space should be managed and optimized by a sysadmin, you can use df to figure out the existing space…
very simple installation # Download the Microsoft repository GPG keys wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/debian/10/packages-microsoft-prod.deb # Register the Microsoft repository GPG keys sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb # Update the list of products sudo apt update # Install PowerShell sudo apt install -y powershell # Start PowerShell pwsh Bash to Powershell command reference Bash PowerShell PowerShell Alias Note Cd…
The program nasm or “netwide assembler” is the first step. If you don’t know if it’s installed Just enter whereis nasm on a command prompt. If a single line “nasm’ is returned you’ll need to install the program. That is one simple command on most distributions. On Debian it is sudo apt install nasm, which…
The apt command utility is a successor to the earlier apt-get. The Debian package management infrastructure has been a feature of Debian since early on. At the heart of Debian package management is dpkg [1], a low-level tool used for installing and removing Debian .deb packages. The bigger and more comprehensive Advanced Package Tool (APT) [2] includes dpkg on the…
During this Coronavirus pandemic my wife and I decided it was better to RV camp instead of attempting to fly and stay in hotels on city based vacations. We’ve purchased a small RV, an Aliner LXE, to tow behind our Jeep wrangler. So far so good. Two trips down and many more to come. Aliner…