Works for 7 servers: Pride Envy Gluttony Lust Wrath Covetousness Sloth
Plagues: Famine, pestilence, locusts, etc...
On the flipside, obscure biblical names and saints are pretty cool too, like Enoch, Ephram, Enosh, Methuselah, Gershon, etc. Some of those lists of begats go on and on...
I learned PERL as a my first language and I'd have to say I liked it a lot. I found it very approachable, as a newbie. Why?
It isn't strongly typed - I like the fact that a scalar can hold any one chunk of data, whether it be a string, a float, or a int.
It's pretty abstract - I know that more experienced programmers will laugh, but the truth is I could care less about what's actually going on in memory. When I want to add items to an array, I don't want to worry about overflowing the stack. Perl makes room for me (at the expense of speed, sure, but I can live with that).
It's pretty intuitive - (In my mind)
Learning Perl - Randall Schwartz's book is great.
No, I'm not a full blown programmer (I don't claim to be) and yes, I was a liberal arts major. For the things I wanted to do (CGI programming, primarily, and just learning the basics of programming), PERL was great. It gave me enough familiarity with data structures, control structures, etc., that I've been able to pick up some C and Java on my own. Now that I have some experience programming, I can see why things like working in a strongly typed language and actually knowing what is going on in physical memory are useful.
Before learning PERL I tried learning some Java, but I couldn't wrap my head around issues like why you wouldn't want all your variables to be global, or why all variables is so strongly typed (yeah, I know, stupid liberal arts major). OOP was beyond the scope of my comprehension, and a majority of the books I found on Java assumed you knew C and C++. Now that I have experience working with subroutines and have made mistakes (like not my'ing my local variables), I can see the advantages of these things...
Just curious: I have "UNIX in a Nutshell" and "Essential System Administration". Between the two I've been able to figure out how to do the majority of things I've wanted to do.
How does "Running Linux" fit into this? Does "Running Linux" cover a lot of ground that isn't covered by "Essential Sys Admin"?
A couple of people in my office just got bopped by this today. It also nukes files on network drives that are mapped on the target computer, which included a couple of our important file servers...
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Works for 7 servers: Pride Envy Gluttony Lust Wrath Covetousness Sloth
Plagues: Famine, pestilence, locusts, etc...
On the flipside, obscure biblical names and saints are pretty cool too, like Enoch, Ephram, Enosh, Methuselah, Gershon, etc. Some of those lists of begats go on and on...
No, I'm not a full blown programmer (I don't claim to be) and yes, I was a liberal arts major. For the things I wanted to do (CGI programming, primarily, and just learning the basics of programming), PERL was great. It gave me enough familiarity with data structures, control structures, etc., that I've been able to pick up some C and Java on my own. Now that I have some experience programming, I can see why things like working in a strongly typed language and actually knowing what is going on in physical memory are useful.
Before learning PERL I tried learning some Java, but I couldn't wrap my head around issues like why you wouldn't want all your variables to be global, or why all variables is so strongly typed (yeah, I know, stupid liberal arts major). OOP was beyond the scope of my comprehension, and a majority of the books I found on Java assumed you knew C and C++. Now that I have experience working with subroutines and have made mistakes (like not my'ing my local variables), I can see the advantages of these things...
Just curious: I have "UNIX in a Nutshell" and "Essential System Administration". Between the two I've been able to figure out how to do the majority of things I've wanted to do.
How does "Running Linux" fit into this? Does "Running Linux" cover a lot of ground that isn't covered by "Essential Sys Admin"?
Thanks.
And Powell's is union now. The folks who work there make more than $7.50 an hour or whatever the poor schmucks who work at Borders make...
A couple of people in my office just got bopped by this today. It also nukes files on network drives that are mapped on the target computer, which included a couple of our important file servers...