In commercial UNIX development houses, the entire system is developed with a rigorous policy of quality assurance, source and revision control systems, documentation, and bug reporting and resolution. This was the beginning of techniques such as license keys. This is true even if the device is a modem being used …

All of the read/write heads are attached together, they all move across the surfaces of the platters together. Some users have reported success configuring and installing drivers for the various winmodems, including Lucent, Conexant, and Rockwell chipsets. Yet throughout many school systems, the software in use on computers is …

Authorization in Linux is provided by users and groups. This is also true for a number of major system tasks where the hardware and software must cooperate closely to achieve their aims. It was unbelievably naive of them to think they could stop the spread of an idea. Later on …

Perhaps the most confusing thing about installing Linux for new users is the large number of options that are available to choose from. The early popularity of distributions like Slackware and then Red Hat gave the "common PC user" of the 1990s access to the Linux operating system and, with …