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;my subject is, of course, humorous. please don't correct the obviously invalid syntax.
;hello to everyone. my handle is treehead. i've been lurking around the forums for a few weeks now and thought i'd join the site.
;i've been interested in computers and hacking around on them since i was 11 years old or so. i currently hold a position at a small educational institution managing all technologies related issues. despite all my "experience," i am a complete unix newbie--which includes linux.
;i hope i can learn a lot from everyone here, and hopefully i can assist others along the way as well. i look forward to getting to know you all.
;as a way to make this thread a bit more interesting, i thought i might pose a question to you:
;what was the highest hurdle you had to clear when you first began learning linux?
;that is: what was the single hardest thing for you to grasp or learn or figure out? a particular command? partitioning? which distro to use? the differences between linux and another OS?
Originally posted by treehead ;my subject is, of course, humorous. please don't correct the obviously invalid syntax.
;hello to everyone. my handle is treehead. i've been lurking around the forums for a few weeks now and thought i'd join the site.
;i've been interested in computers and hacking around on them since i was 11 years old or so. i currently hold a position at a small educational institution managing all technologies related issues. despite all my "experience," i am a complete unix newbie--which includes linux.
;i hope i can learn a lot from everyone here, and hopefully i can assist others along the way as well. i look forward to getting to know you all.
;as a way to make this thread a bit more interesting, i thought i might pose a question to you:
;what was the highest hurdle you had to clear when you first began learning linux?
;that is: what was the single hardest thing for you to grasp or learn or figure out? a particular command? partitioning? which distro to use? the differences between linux and another OS?
;treehead
UMM wheres the On Button? or was it the Fsk or grep? hmm lemme tink, no it was how do I switch this bloody thing off lol
ctrl alt backspace is a wonderfull thing to find tadadaaaaa NO serioulsy I find the differences thing a major pain in the rear end to use - so I dont - I look for the rpms and let SuSe YOU sort out the rest.
;not that i actually tried this without checking it out first, but i think other "newbies" would consider this taking advantage of their ignorance for a laugh.
;this kind of response does not instill trust or confidence in a new user--something of which the linux community is short supply right now--especially at the so-called "end-user" level.
;next time, either save the joke or qualify it a little more than with a "smiley" ok?
The toughest thing I had to overcome was searching on all these forums trying to figure out what command I needed to use to search the whole filesystem (also know as drives in the MS world) to FIND a file. Then I stumbled across #man find what a revelation. All the directions are actually ON the computer. Way cool.
You may be wondering what FILE I was trying to find... well (and I have this memorized) /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock. It's a FILE, right? Like everything ELSE on my Linux box. After about a weeks worth of evenings spent poking and proding through every peice of info I could get (I actually printed out the 1,082 page MySQL manual (at work)), I discovered that 1) it's not a damn FILE till the MySQL server starts and 2) the server wouldn't start because it couldn't find the file. Well... I learned a LOT about rights and permissions : )
Originally posted by chashutch
<snip> Well... I learned a LOT about rights and permissions : )
Sorry so long... Take care.
;there's a significant difference b/t windows acl's (access control lists) and unix permissions which i cannot say i entirely understand yet. i have a server running samba at work though, so i need to!
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