Off the top of my head, I can think of only a few *really* important commands you need to know to use Linux. ls, cd, mv, cp, rm, mkdir, and (perhaps most importantly) man. I know this is a bit of a simplification, but if you know those seven commands you can do pretty well. Most of my CS 1 class has no clue how to use the command line, but after learning those commands and how to run EMACS, javacc and java (ugh), they're all doing pretty well. Except for a certain idiot with little patience and what seems like a learning disability, not to mention crap typing skills:-) If we were actually given physical access to these machines (they're Suns running Solaris 9) we could have a good windowing system and people would probably be even more successful, but as it is we are stuck ssh'ing in from a Mac lab. Even so, everybody was doing basic tasks in *NIX inside of a day.
Of course, it is important to know some of the other commands if you want to get advanced, but that's what "man" is for. I've been using Linux for over four years, and I still don't know all the options to most commands; that's because I don't need them. I had learned the *important* commands and options within a few weeks, with a "UNIX for Dummies" book and a 486.
And above all, tell the FBI to start going after terrorists instead of people who download Ashley Simpson: Yodel Out Loud.
Actually, I think I'd prefer them to go after whoever is stupid enough to download that kind of garbage. I'll probably be caused much more pain and suffering through hearing that sort of music than by anything terrorists could do:-)
Sad but true. I don't know if your post deserves an "Insightful" or a "Funny." For an example of state-funded "art" that looks HORRIBLE, see here. That thing is ugly as sin. It's one of the major reasons I chose not to go to WSU:-)
What is up with this attitude? When I was in school, I never had to study, always got A's on quizzes, things just came to me naturally. However, instead of being harassed by the teachers or fellow students, I was simply recognized as a really good student. If anybody had a question about math, science, English, Japanese, computing, whatever, they just asked me and I answered as well as possible.
Unless my school was a total deviation from the norm, smart kids don't get harassed unless they start acting like jerks.
In this sort of thing, I would take as much non-perishable food as I could carry and maybe two changes of clothes. Being fed is far more important than having clean clothes every day. I would also pack up a basic first-aid kit. As for sleeping, a tarp and some twine can make a useable shelter, and sleeping bags are non needed in Louisiana in September.
Stick close to the roads, try to hitch rides away from the coast. You should make it okay. You don't need to survive for months on your own, just until you can get somewhere for help. Maybe you have relatives in Texas, so when you get to a reasonably safe place you can call them and have them pick you up. A little hunger or hardship is better than dying.
If I wanted to leave town, I would. Back in the olden days, before cars and buses, they had these things called feet. You filled up a "backpack" with fuel in the form of "food" and "walked" to your destination. This archaic method of transportation has proven surprisingly effective in the past.
When given the choice of getting drowned at home, walking out of town, or going to the Superdome, I probably would have chosen the Superdome, since it was closer to home and would have seemed less risky. However, if I knew that the town would flood and I would be stuck in the Superdome for days with half-crazed people, I would head for the hills.
Yet it doesn't scratch. So if you were careful not to drop your iPod, you'd be okay. Actually, I'm not sure what it would take to shatter the kind of diamond coating that would go around an iPod. It might be something Apple should look into, for those people who MUST HAVE A SCRATCH-FREE IPOD!
Nice. Back in Grant County, Washington (a big, but rather empty, county), they are installing a county-wide fiber network. It can be expensive getting it out to you, but after installation the prices are reasonable and the speeds are excellent. So even out in the stalks (there aren't many trees, or it would be the sticks) there are high-speed connections available.
In other news, it has been discovered that discussing things with your friends is possible. Scientists also claim that differing opinions can be expounded at the same time, and that trying to relieve somebody of his illusions is perfectly acceptable. More at 10
Maybe everyone needs to a little less concerned about what everyone else is doing.
I'll assume you meant to have a "be" after the "to." Perhaps they do, but of course, while millions of people run unpatched versions of Windows--which are an annoyance to all of us, due to spam zombies and such--getting people to use a better/more secure OS is a good idea.
I have used Mac, Windows and Linux and I still don't care what the hell anyone else uses.
Great! I guess you don't have to read these kind of stories anymore, nor should you be reading the replies.
Is anyone else tired of these same arguments over and over?
Oh yes, I am tired of them. However, as I said before, while stupidity runs rampant the arguments should continue.
You either have a computer or you don't.
Yep. I have one. So do many other people. Therefore, it matters to me if those people are being stupid with their computers, because it can affect me. In fact, it can even affect those without computers.
Get a life
Right-o! I'll just run out to the next frat party and get drunk off my arse, then spend the next day hung-over and watching football. That seems to be the life lived by people who say "Get a life", anyway.
Indeed, I will admit that Protools on a mac is very nice. However, refusing to acknowledge that there is something else, which may even be better, is foolish.
I have to admit, that made me laugh. I've never met a nicer, friendlier, and more easy-going "unholy cult" than a group of your typical Mac users.
Really? I find many Mac users to be self-righteous fools who cannot accept that any other system can do whatever they do on Macs. For instance, I know a guy who swears up and down that he "needs" a Mac because he is going to study music in college, and might need to record something. Although I kept explaining to him that both Linux and Windows have audio hardware and apps, and that much professional recording is done on various Unix machines (SGI, anybody?), he never listened.
Also, a reflection on the intelligence of Macheads: These people pay $100 for an mp3 player with NO DISPLAY and doesn't allow you to choose which song you want. Never mind that you can get something that will tell you what you're listening to and lets you choose the next song for about the same price--Jobs told them to buy it, so it must be the best out there.
Most cops I've met or dealt with are decent guys doing their job. However, they don't appreciate people calling them pigs or acting like jerks. Just because you get told to stop throwing rocks at passing cars or whatever does not mean you are living in an oppressive police state.
That said, I really hope this bill never passes, in Canada, here in the U.S., or anywhere else.
I much prefer Project Galactic Guide to such things as h2g2 and the vogon.com project. It has lots of "non-real" articles, but quite a few are fun _and_ informative. We need some new submissions, so anybody interested should get writing!
Here's what I did last year when I needed to see something (a file or webpage) that my school's filtering software had blocked.
I have a shell account on a remote server. While at school, I would go to the putty website and click on putty.exe. I would choose to run it rather than save (which I wasn't allowed to do), then log into the remote server. I could then mirror the file or whatever onto my own personal webspace, which the school filters allowed. I used this method to watch Homestarrunner all the time, and I never got in trouble.
This last year, I would run putty (couldn't download it, but I could run it) from my school account, log into the Linux server I had in the other room, and use smbclient to do netsend-type messages to people. I usually would set the "from" field to "God" and say something like "I know thy sins." I scared a friend of mine quite badly because she had just been discussing religion and didn't know what the message was:-). Getting around school regulations is fun!
So you are advocating leaving Iraq right now, so it can fall under the control of some new dictator, leaving it in essentially the same situation as before? Like it or not, now that we've started the war and overthrown the old government, we have to rebuild it. When you create a power void like we have in Iraq, you need to wait around a bit or something even worse will fill that void.
That said, I think it would be foolish to cut any of NASA's budget. I don't think I'd care too much if the NEA's funding was cut, because I would say that 90% of all "art" is crap, such as the huge blue heart with tools glued to it that is currently in the middle of the WSU campus.
You know, if you are going to use a biometric-and-password system, how will you log into a remote system? You could scan yourself locally and send the result by network, but that is only as secure as the encryption. Anyone who can read that data now has your biometric information in convenient electronic form.
Just a thought, it may not even have any merit, but I thought it was worth bringing up.
I don't see what the problem with Linux on the desktop. I use it every day (haven't booted to windows for over three months, and only then to play a game). I currently prefer WindowMaker because I simply find it to be convenient and powerful. KDE and GNOME actually annoy me a bit, although I couldn't explain why without consideration (I haven't used either in months). In my opinion, most of the major WM's (GNOME, KDE, WindowMaker, FVWM, AfterStep, etc.) all work great and are much better than Windows. If you put me on a Windows machine, a pre-OSX Mac, or even an OSX machine, I'll quickly become annoyed with certain brain-damaged things; OSX is the lesser of those three evils, but it can still be a pain.
Anyhow, brand me a zealot, but I like Linux on the desktop.
Actually, much as it pains me to say this--don't want to break my own rule:-), I'm in 12th grade. I know first hand how 9th graders act, and I would say 95% of them are idiots. Granted, if he is posting on/. he may not fall into that category. And what does having a master's degree have to do with that? It only shows how long it has been since you were around 9th graders.
Here's some advice for you: Don't ever say that you are in 9th grade. If you say that, almost everybody will immediately discount whatever you said, no matter how well written the statement was. Your post, however, was neither well-thought out nor was it well written, so I hereby stamp it with a large "IGNORE". Yes, I know that nobody else here punctuates or spells correctly, but you are still in school and thereby SHOULD be able to do so. We all know geeks are good; we all know programs like this aren't.
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Off the top of my head, I can think of only a few *really* important commands you need to know to use Linux. ls, cd, mv, cp, rm, mkdir, and (perhaps most importantly) man. I know this is a bit of a simplification, but if you know those seven commands you can do pretty well. Most of my CS 1 class has no clue how to use the command line, but after learning those commands and how to run EMACS, javacc and java (ugh), they're all doing pretty well. Except for a certain idiot with little patience and what seems like a learning disability, not to mention crap typing skills :-) If we were actually given physical access to these machines (they're Suns running Solaris 9) we could have a good windowing system and people would probably be even more successful, but as it is we are stuck ssh'ing in from a Mac lab. Even so, everybody was doing basic tasks in *NIX inside of a day.
Of course, it is important to know some of the other commands if you want to get advanced, but that's what "man" is for. I've been using Linux for over four years, and I still don't know all the options to most commands; that's because I don't need them. I had learned the *important* commands and options within a few weeks, with a "UNIX for Dummies" book and a 486.
And above all, tell the FBI to start going after terrorists instead of people who download Ashley Simpson: Yodel Out Loud.
Actually, I think I'd prefer them to go after whoever is stupid enough to download that kind of garbage. I'll probably be caused much more pain and suffering through hearing that sort of music than by anything terrorists could do :-)
Sad but true. I don't know if your post deserves an "Insightful" or a "Funny." For an example of state-funded "art" that looks HORRIBLE, see here. That thing is ugly as sin. It's one of the major reasons I chose not to go to WSU :-)
What is up with this attitude? When I was in school, I never had to study, always got A's on quizzes, things just came to me naturally. However, instead of being harassed by the teachers or fellow students, I was simply recognized as a really good student. If anybody had a question about math, science, English, Japanese, computing, whatever, they just asked me and I answered as well as possible.
Unless my school was a total deviation from the norm, smart kids don't get harassed unless they start acting like jerks.
I believe parents can make any decisions for minors, unless the court takes away their custody or something similar.
IANAL, of course
In this sort of thing, I would take as much non-perishable food as I could carry and maybe two changes of clothes. Being fed is far more important than having clean clothes every day. I would also pack up a basic first-aid kit. As for sleeping, a tarp and some twine can make a useable shelter, and sleeping bags are non needed in Louisiana in September.
Stick close to the roads, try to hitch rides away from the coast. You should make it okay. You don't need to survive for months on your own, just until you can get somewhere for help. Maybe you have relatives in Texas, so when you get to a reasonably safe place you can call them and have them pick you up. A little hunger or hardship is better than dying.
If I wanted to leave town, I would. Back in the olden days, before cars and buses, they had these things called feet. You filled up a "backpack" with fuel in the form of "food" and "walked" to your destination. This archaic method of transportation has proven surprisingly effective in the past.
When given the choice of getting drowned at home, walking out of town, or going to the Superdome, I probably would have chosen the Superdome, since it was closer to home and would have seemed less risky. However, if I knew that the town would flood and I would be stuck in the Superdome for days with half-crazed people, I would head for the hills.
Yet it doesn't scratch. So if you were careful not to drop your iPod, you'd be okay. Actually, I'm not sure what it would take to shatter the kind of diamond coating that would go around an iPod. It might be something Apple should look into, for those people who MUST HAVE A SCRATCH-FREE IPOD!
Why would a space station be out in deep space? In orbit around a planet or at a Lagrange point would make more sense to me.
Nice. Back in Grant County, Washington (a big, but rather empty, county), they are installing a county-wide fiber network. It can be expensive getting it out to you, but after installation the prices are reasonable and the speeds are excellent. So even out in the stalks (there aren't many trees, or it would be the sticks) there are high-speed connections available.
In other news, it has been discovered that discussing things with your friends is possible. Scientists also claim that differing opinions can be expounded at the same time, and that trying to relieve somebody of his illusions is perfectly acceptable. More at 10
Let me go through this post sentence-by-sentence:
Maybe everyone needs to a little less concerned about what everyone else is doing.
I'll assume you meant to have a "be" after the "to." Perhaps they do, but of course, while millions of people run unpatched versions of Windows--which are an annoyance to all of us, due to spam zombies and such--getting people to use a better/more secure OS is a good idea.
I have used Mac, Windows and Linux and I still don't care what the hell anyone else uses.
Great! I guess you don't have to read these kind of stories anymore, nor should you be reading the replies.
Is anyone else tired of these same arguments over and over?
Oh yes, I am tired of them. However, as I said before, while stupidity runs rampant the arguments should continue.
You either have a computer or you don't.
Yep. I have one. So do many other people. Therefore, it matters to me if those people are being stupid with their computers, because it can affect me. In fact, it can even affect those without computers.
Get a life
Right-o! I'll just run out to the next frat party and get drunk off my arse, then spend the next day hung-over and watching football. That seems to be the life lived by people who say "Get a life", anyway.
Indeed, I will admit that Protools on a mac is very nice. However, refusing to acknowledge that there is something else, which may even be better, is foolish.
I have to admit, that made me laugh. I've never met a nicer, friendlier, and more easy-going "unholy cult" than a group of your typical Mac users.
Really? I find many Mac users to be self-righteous fools who cannot accept that any other system can do whatever they do on Macs. For instance, I know a guy who swears up and down that he "needs" a Mac because he is going to study music in college, and might need to record something. Although I kept explaining to him that both Linux and Windows have audio hardware and apps, and that much professional recording is done on various Unix machines (SGI, anybody?), he never listened.
Also, a reflection on the intelligence of Macheads: These people pay $100 for an mp3 player with NO DISPLAY and doesn't allow you to choose which song you want. Never mind that you can get something that will tell you what you're listening to and lets you choose the next song for about the same price--Jobs told them to buy it, so it must be the best out there.
You never had dealt with the pigs before???
Most cops I've met or dealt with are decent guys doing their job. However, they don't appreciate people calling them pigs or acting like jerks. Just because you get told to stop throwing rocks at passing cars or whatever does not mean you are living in an oppressive police state.
That said, I really hope this bill never passes, in Canada, here in the U.S., or anywhere else.
I much prefer Project Galactic Guide to such things as h2g2 and the vogon.com project. It has lots of "non-real" articles, but quite a few are fun _and_ informative. We need some new submissions, so anybody interested should get writing!
Here's what I did last year when I needed to see something (a file or webpage) that my school's filtering software had blocked.
I have a shell account on a remote server. While at school, I would go to the putty website and click on putty.exe. I would choose to run it rather than save (which I wasn't allowed to do), then log into the remote server. I could then mirror the file or whatever onto my own personal webspace, which the school filters allowed. I used this method to watch Homestarrunner all the time, and I never got in trouble.
This last year, I would run putty (couldn't download it, but I could run it) from my school account, log into the Linux server I had in the other room, and use smbclient to do netsend-type messages to people. I usually would set the "from" field to "God" and say something like "I know thy sins." I scared a friend of mine quite badly because she had just been discussing religion and didn't know what the message was :-). Getting around school regulations is fun!
Just remember the song from Strong Bad:
"If it's supposed to be possessive, it's just i-t-s, but if it's supposed to be a contraction, it's i-t-apostrophe-s. Scalawag."
So you are advocating leaving Iraq right now, so it can fall under the control of some new dictator, leaving it in essentially the same situation as before? Like it or not, now that we've started the war and overthrown the old government, we have to rebuild it. When you create a power void like we have in Iraq, you need to wait around a bit or something even worse will fill that void.
That said, I think it would be foolish to cut any of NASA's budget. I don't think I'd care too much if the NEA's funding was cut, because I would say that 90% of all "art" is crap, such as the huge blue heart with tools glued to it that is currently in the middle of the WSU campus.
You know, if you are going to use a biometric-and-password system, how will you log into a remote system? You could scan yourself locally and send the result by network, but that is only as secure as the encryption. Anyone who can read that data now has your biometric information in convenient electronic form.
Just a thought, it may not even have any merit, but I thought it was worth bringing up.
I don't see what the problem with Linux on the desktop. I use it every day (haven't booted to windows for over three months, and only then to play a game). I currently prefer WindowMaker because I simply find it to be convenient and powerful. KDE and GNOME actually annoy me a bit, although I couldn't explain why without consideration (I haven't used either in months). In my opinion, most of the major WM's (GNOME, KDE, WindowMaker, FVWM, AfterStep, etc.) all work great and are much better than Windows. If you put me on a Windows machine, a pre-OSX Mac, or even an OSX machine, I'll quickly become annoyed with certain brain-damaged things; OSX is the lesser of those three evils, but it can still be a pain.
Anyhow, brand me a zealot, but I like Linux on the desktop.
Ah.
/me watches the funny evaporate.
I'm just going to kill this discussion now by invoking the general topic-ender--calling you a Nazi.
NAZI!
Actually, much as it pains me to say this--don't want to break my own rule :-), I'm in 12th grade. I know first hand how 9th graders act, and I would say 95% of them are idiots. Granted, if he is posting on /. he may not fall into that category. And what does having a master's degree have to do with that? It only shows how long it has been since you were around 9th graders.
Here's some advice for you: Don't ever say that you are in 9th grade. If you say that, almost everybody will immediately discount whatever you said, no matter how well written the statement was. Your post, however, was neither well-thought out nor was it well written, so I hereby stamp it with a large "IGNORE". Yes, I know that nobody else here punctuates or spells correctly, but you are still in school and thereby SHOULD be able to do so. We all know geeks are good; we all know programs like this aren't.