Archive of posts from 2017

• A Brief Introduction to AWK 2017 December 30
  • awk
  • bash
  • programming
  • tutorial

  This will be brief introduction to awk and it’s many uses. I will show a few brief segments about various uses of awk and when it comes in handy for certain tasks. For more detail one should read the Awk User’s Manual.

• Fedora 27 Review 2017 November 24
  • distro
  • fedora
  • linux
  • reviews

  I recently bought a new laptop, and I put Fedora 27 Workstation on it, and it is much better than my previous impression. Things are functioning much better than my encounter Fedora 25. There’s proper integration with services. Things are working out of the box and with RPMFusion, it is the single best distro out there for desktop work.

• WTF, Steam? 2017 October 28
  • bloat
  • rant
  • steam-games

  Steam is so bloated. It seems like every single time I fire it up I have to download a new update, and these updates are not small or reasonable to download on a terrible DSL connection. I come home from college like every two weeks and I just want to play a few games before I have to go back, is that too much to ask? I don’t get how these platforms have bloated so much. I haven’t played games for so long, and I bought new ones, and just when I want to play with them I have to download a big old 200MB update. This is totally unacceptable.

• CyberSeed 2017 - Application Security 2017 October 21
  • college
  • competition
  • cyberdefense-club
  • cybersecurity
  • programming

  I recently competed at the 4th Cyberseed event at UConn in the application development competition. The challenge was to build a secure application according to specific specifications before the competition. Then the individual teams would attack each others apps in order to collect various flags placed in our apps. This year was the first for this particular event, and the challenge was to build a secure medical repository. The teams were then given the source for each others apps a couple of days before the event. This event was a lot of fun and lead to a lot of lessons about secure app development for me.

• Analyzing Your Takeout Data From Google Fit 2017 June 27
  • analysis
  • bash
  • google-fit
  • r-lang
  • statistics
  • tutorial

  Google allows you to export your data from various products. In this post I show how one can run analysis on my data from Google Fit to find various pieces of information using the basic bash command line tools.

• Universal Studios Florida 2017 June 14
  • florida
  • reviews
  • theme-parks
  • travel
  • universal-studios

  I recently visited Universal Studios Florida and it was really nice. This will cover all my thoughts on the various areas excluding Harry Potter world. The islands of adventure will also be it’s own separate post. I will link to those posts at the bottom of this one when they are posted.

• Arch Linux 2017 May 09
  • distro
  • linux
  • reviews
  • setup

  I recently decided to make a move to Arch Linux, and I really like it. I haven’t encountered any major issues yet. It’s very slim. However there are some rough points to it, and some extremely nice parts.

• Gripes with Fedora 25 2017 April 18
  • distro
  • linux
  • reviews

  I’ve recently upgraded to Fedora 25, and I’ve run into some issues with it, and I’m not as happy with it as I used to be. I still like Fedora, but it feels like some issues are beginning to pop up with it.

• Review of Alpine Linux 2017 March 30
  • distro
  • linux
  • reviews
  

  I’ve recently started using Alpine Linux for a school project and its a really neat little distro. It’s designed to be very small, and secure. It uses an alternative C standard library known as musl, and it’s the new default for docker images. This post will detail the installation and my thoughts regarding this distro and what needs to be improved. This review is for Alpine Linux 3.5.2 released on March 2, 2017.

• Finding the Largest File Stored in Your Git Repository 2017 January 30
  • bash
  • git
  • linux
  • programming
  • sed
  • xargs

  This command will find the largest file from the output of git ls-files which outputs the path to each of the files stored in git below your current directory.