At some point in the past, Unix — the progenitor of Linux — treated virtually everything as a file, and all files were created more or less equal. Programs didn’t care if a file was local, on the ...

A Canadian man is crediting his knowledge of kung fu with helping him survive a terrifying night with a Canadian landscaper accused of being a serial killer. Peter Sgromo had just moved back to ...

In the old days, if you wanted to snoop on a piece of serial gear, you probably had a serial monitor or, perhaps, an attachment for your scope or logic analyzer. Today, you can get cheap logic ...