Infrastructures.org. Learn it, love it, be happy. It is an overall theory of administration pointing to the idea of keeping all software and configuration information for the entirety of your system in a central place and allowing changes to "emmanate" outward as necessary.
For an incredible implimentation of the afforementioned Mike Rubel rsync trick, check out rsnapshot. It is perl based, quite robust in the error checking arena, and very configurable. Plus the creator is very open to suggestions and is quick with the updates. Plus, there is even a deb repository:
I have done some Linux tutorials and the sites I have utilized the most have been Rootprompt.org and LinuxSecurity.com. Rootprompt has alot of excellent "essays" on lots of different topics relating to Unix and Linux that can easily be converted to micro-lectures.
LinuxSecurity is more specialized, but when you do get to your security lecture, their "Reference Card" is indisposable.
All I can say is, TWM rocks. If you want to go mouseless, just run twm and hack the config file to however you want it. I can cycle through my windows, close them, open them, hide them, just about anything from the keyboard alone. Hope this helps a bit... Oh and running Screen doesn't hurt either! The only downside I have found is that there is no pager in twm...
My only issue is that it doesn't have a control stick like the portable MD players do. This means that if you are walkin around with the player in your backpack and you want to skip a song, you have to get it out and press the button and put it in...
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Infrastructures.org. Learn it, love it, be happy. It is an overall theory of administration pointing to the idea of keeping all software and configuration information for the entirety of your system in a central place and allowing changes to "emmanate" outward as necessary.
-Shane
-Shane
I have done some Linux tutorials and the sites I have utilized the most have been Rootprompt.org and LinuxSecurity.com. Rootprompt has alot of excellent "essays" on lots of different topics relating to Unix and Linux that can easily be converted to micro-lectures.
LinuxSecurity is more specialized, but when you do get to your security lecture, their "Reference Card" is indisposable.
Hope this helps some, and keep teaching!
-Redux
All I can say is, TWM rocks. If you want to go mouseless, just run twm and hack the config file to however you want it. I can cycle through my windows, close them, open them, hide them, just about anything from the keyboard alone. Hope this helps a bit... Oh and running Screen doesn't hurt either! The only downside I have found is that there is no pager in twm...
My only issue is that it doesn't have a control stick like the portable MD players do. This means that if you are walkin around with the player in your backpack and you want to skip a song, you have to get it out and press the button and put it in...