You can use the ‘fetch’ command to retrieve files over ftp or http. fetch http://www.FreeBSD.org/index.html will download the front page of the FreeBSD web site.

You can use aliases to decrease the amount of typing you need to do to get commands you commonly use. Examples of fairly popular aliases include (in Bourne shell style, as in /bin/sh, bash, ksh, and zsh): alias lf=”ls -FA” alias ll=”ls -lA” alias su=”su -m” In csh or tcsh, these would be alias lf ls -FA alias ll ls -lA alias su su -m To remove an alias, you can usually use ‘unalias aliasname’. Read more

It seemed a nice idea to create a little site with tips about various things using the .tips top-level domain. Here it is! A collection of tips from the Grumpy Old Techie. This site is generated using hugo. It previously ran on ghost and before that on wordpress. I got tired of the constant care and feeding of complex systems and continous updates because of security and bugfixes. An added bonus is that the site is now static and can be hosted virtually anyware. Read more

This site appeared in Google’s index less than a day after it was set up. Of course nothing was (is) really ready for prime time. If your site isn’t just a vanity site make sure your content is ready before you go live.