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Understanding Linux: Week 1: Linux vs Unix
For the starters, before getting into the intricacies of Linux I decided to clarify properly a confusion between Unix and Linux which I always had (I am being honest). Linux literature everywhere is full of references from Unix and so it is important to understand the difference which is indeed very small. I am pretty sure there are many Linux users out there who never cared to find it out (same as me), this could help them. Continue reading
1 week after LASIK
This is continuation of my post : 1 week before LASIK.
So I had my lasik done on 24th Feb 2017. My LASIK story is not a very happy one, sadly :D. I knew there are a lot of complications related to LASIK before undergoing the surgery but I was stressing myself a lot with all those complications and then decided to have it done anyway irrespective of the complications involved because my surgeon mentioned that I’m a good candidate for LASIK. Continue reading
1 week before LASIK
I have been wearing glasses for more than 10 years now. My glass prescription is at around -6.0. If you are someone who wears glasses then you know how painful that might be. I started with -1.5 prescription when was around 11 and from then it kept increasing and now I am almost blind without my glasses. Continue reading
Understanding Linux : My new blog series.
I have been using linux for more than 3 years now and have loved it so far. I have used only ubuntu and didn’t feel a need to switch to other variants of linux because I had no issues with ubuntu.
Lately I have started working on Linux containers and virtualisation which made me realise that I need to know a lot more about the internals of Linux and how it all sums up to make Linux how awesome it is.
Thea idea is to publish my learning so that others can also benefit from it. I will publish the first part sometime next week.
UPDATE:
I finally managed to publish first article in this series : Understanding Linux: Week 1: Linux vs Unix