Before personal computers, there were mainframe computers and timesharing terminals. Users would log in to an account from a terminal to a mainframe, and issue commands to the mainframe to process.

The Command Line terminal is one of the most useful Windows tools available to the average user (or to advanced users, for that matter.) It allows you to bypass programs and issue commands ...

This issue of Linux Journal celebrates the cursor—that wonderful blinking underscore and all the potential that it holds. To get warmed up, Dave Taylor (author of Learning Unix for Mac OS X and Wicked ...

Basically I am trying to think of way for a "Master" server to issue commands to a collection of "bots". Ideally there would be a way to spin up new instances on the fly with some sort of cloud ...