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I was reading through a learning tree catalogue this morning and trying to
decide what my next training course should be.
I came across one called Linux - a comprehensive ...
- 12-13-2007 #1Trusted Penguin
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I kind of impressed myself this morning.
I was reading through a learning tree catalogue this morning and trying to
decide what my next training course should be.
I came across one called Linux - a comprehensive introduction.
As I read through what it teaches, I was like "Know that, know that, know that"
all the way through the list.
So I have decided.
$I = ++$clueless_newbie;
A nice start to the day
If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate! (Zapp Brannigan)
My new blog. It's probably not as good as I think it is.
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I know the feeling. Linux gives you so many challenges. It's nice to take them on, learn and succeed. The first really big one for me was years ago when I successfully compiled Xmms in Mandrake from source. It was a daunting task with many dependency problems, but I stayed with it and made it work. It taught me much. Afterwards, it was such a good feeling knowing I'd made it work, and was far more Linux knowledgeable because of it.
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Compiling something from source comes next, I only recently graduated
to installing software from outside the repositories. I do that a lot now
I'm not sure what it will be - or when I'll need to do it. I am looking
forward to it though.
<sigh>I need a life</sigh>If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate! (Zapp Brannigan)
My new blog. It's probably not as good as I think it is.
- 12-17-2007 #4Linux Newbie
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heh... heh....
I'm scared to even open source (or xorg.conf or fstab) in an editor, out of fear of screwing something up. And I still haven't read through a whole programming book since middle school (which was a watered-down version of PBasic...).
Maybe I'm just a big wimp. I need to build another computer and just get with the program...ming.
Congrats, though Elija.
$I < --$clueless_newbie
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Don't need to worry about screwing up those configuration files. Most distros have a built in safety where the old file gets saved in its present directory after you "edit" it. That way, if you screw something up, you just go back to the old file. xorg.conf gets saved as xorg.conf~, and the new one takes it place. If you screw it up you just...
Code:cd /etc/X11
Code:ls applnk xinit xorg.conf xorg.conf~
Code:rm xorg.conf
Save, restart X and you'll be back using the old configuration file.Code:mv xorg.conf~ xorg.conf
- 12-17-2007 #6Linux Newbie
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lol luckily I haven't actually screwed it up, but thanks anyways (I'll probably need that tidbit sooner or later). I was just showing how big a wimp I am...
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Heh. As long as your data is backed up and on a seperate partition, you need
have no fear of almighty screw ups.
You can always put the system back If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate! (Zapp Brannigan)
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