If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For most of the history of personal computing, ...

The STS4x is a fully digital temperature sensor platform offering different accuracy classes. The I2C interface provides multiple preconfigured I2C addresses and enables an ultra-low power budget.

Linux has yet another high-severity vulnerability that makes it easy for untrusted users to execute code capable of carrying out a host of malicious actions, including installing backdoors, creating ...

Multinational oil and gas company Shell has agreed to take a 51pc stake in a joint venture to develop a floating wind farm off the Clare coast. The deal with Simply Blue Group, a Cork-based “blue ...

In this article, I am going to explain the basic usage of the Bash printf command with examples in Linux. By the end of this article, you will be comfortable in using the printf command in Bash shell ...

picolua is a proof-of-concept Lua programming environment for the Pi Pico. As well as the Lua run-time, it includes a rudimentary shell that accepts Linux-like commands, a full-screen editor, and ...

Studying rocky-planet atmospheres gives clues to how they interact with surfaces and subsurfaces, and whether any non-equilibrium compounds could reflect the presence of life. Characterizing ...

How to begin developing a computer version of the popular card game. Between the previous 163 columns I've written here in Linux Journal and the dozens of games I programmed and explored during the ...

When I was preparing inline graphics—the little images embedded in a line of text—for my Take Control of Numbers book, I was almost finished when I remembered that the filenames needed to adhere to a ...

What is the effect of programming languages on software quality? This question has been a topic of much debate for a very long time. In this study, we gather a very large data set from GitHub (728 ...

As a system and application engineer, I’ve saved countless hours by automating measurements with software such as LabVIEW. Although I’ve used it to build measurement applications, I’ve started to ...