With the rapid development of GPT-based models, educational chatbots are no longer limited to scripted dialogs. They can now support open-ended interaction and inquiry-based learning. In a study ...

The University Research Computing Facility (URCF) is pleased to announce our Summer 2025 workshop series. The URCF provides support for computational research at Drexel. These workshops are open to ...

What's great for programming pros is good enough for beginners.

Learn the ABCs of BSD.

OK, well, just like in some of the world's bigger countries, Windows has fallen to new lows and GNU/Linux generally grew in ...

3 days ago: Mass Layoffs (But Silent Layoffs) Still Happening in IBM, You Need Only Look Closely (There Are NDAs, PIPs, 'Early Retirement' Sweeteners and IBM - Like Microsoft - Skirts the WARN Act) ...

Have you ever dreamed of making a bash script that assembles Intel 8080 machine code? [Chris Smith] did exactly that when he created xa.sh, a cross-assembler written entirely in Bourne shell script.

It is no secret that we often use and abuse bash to write things that ought to be in a different language. But bash does have its attractions. In the modern world, it is practically everywhere. It can ...

#include <sys/types.h> #include <pwd.h> I struct passwd *getpwnam(const char * name ); I struct passwd *getpwuid(uid_t uid ); I int getpwnam_r(const char * name , struct passwd * pwbuf , I char * buf ...