FAT16 and FAT32 and their Flash-friendly cousin exFAT are all well and good for boot partitions or hauling PDFs down to the printers, but what if you could use a modern, full-featured filesystem like ZFS to portably share files between operating systems?

Thanks to the work of OpenZFS, this is well within reach — with just a bit of legwork. ...more

Consider this classic interview question:

Write a function to return the first n odd numbers.

Just reading that, some readers will probably have started answering in their heads already. ...more

There aren't many Unix utilities more Unixy than dd(1). It takes data from the input file and writes it to the output file — but it's kind of shy. Wit… ...more