Linux

Since my consulting work relies heavily on Microsoft tools like Office and Power BI, I have primarily been using Windows as my operating system. I still do a lot of programming, and to my surprise, developing on Windows has been very good.

My configuration files

In July 2012, a new image of Arch Linux (201207) was released, and on the same day, I decided to download and reinstall my system. Throughout the process, I noticed several changes both in the installation process and in the operation of the distribution:

When we log out or type exit in a terminal, a hangup signal is sent to the shell, terminating all its child processes. The term used is hungup, as computer users from the last century used modems to connect their terminals to mainframes.

Today my father asked me to send him some things. There were 10 files of approximately 250MB each; too much work to send via email, 2.5GB would exceed my limit on Dropbox, and there was no Google Drive for Linux yet (only via web, meh).