Since when did folks feel that everyone on Advogato.org enjoys hearing them brag about how they were in the gifted class as children, they were more intelligent than nearly all of the teachers, that they couldn't understand why someone in IRC doesn't like them and they had to do an awful thing like ban the person?
When people act like that, I find it very difficult to believe anything they say, and wonder if these people have a grudge against the world for their own mistakes and shortcomings.
I need to read up on the documentation at the Linux Handbook to figure out why some of the programs I am trying to install to Debian are not installing.
Right now I just want to enjoy playing around from the command line, try as many examples as I can. Unfortunately, I know I won't be able to remember a lot of those commands. Someone told me that the commands are stored in "bash history"? Maybe someone can point me this file?
From a newcomer's perspective, it's been refreshing to just chat from within Debian, and not have to look at eye candy or worry whether Windows is about to lock up on me.
Again, I ask that everyone do as I am trying to do with this site: use it to find ways to contribute to the Unix and Linux community, and to contribute to open source software development. Actually, I am using the site to help ME get some enjoyment out of using non-Windows operating systems, with the gut feeling that my technical skills will be of some value to the communities mentioned above.
I was delighted to receive help in getting Debian installed on my third machine. So far I just know how to use apt-get and apt-cache to search for, get and install packages. I did use BitchX from the command line, but found it a bit cluttered. Curfloo, on the other hand, I am having a blast with! I love being able to walk away from the machine and come back to read previous messages from hours ago. All that without having to worry that Windows might lock up on me. At the moment I am utterly torn between learning as much as I can from the command line, getting a nice Window Manager running, to start coding my PHP, C and PERL code from a GUI environment.
I took a look at this site in an attempt to learn how to solicit better answers (if at all) for my technical questions, both on and off the Internet. Well, let me say that I love my newfound knowledge, in fact I used it in a Yahoo! chatroom today to get answers to a computer question of mine. I want to extend my appreciation to goingware for offering that piece of advice.
It's very nice to see that over on Debian's site they are developing a distribution of Debian (Debian Jr.) geared toward children. The sub title of the page "Debian for children from 1 to 99" is cute, and I think it underscores the best way to introduce anyone to Unix or Linux. Whether we really are in our teens as we are introduced to Unix or Linux or not, we are still children when it comes to learning how to operate a computer within the Unix or Linux domain.
Last night I tried installing Debian from the 32+MB ISO I burned to a cd. I don't think the installation went all the well. For starters I had no clue what partitions I should make and how big to make them. The only ones I thought were needed were, /, /boot, /swap and /usr. For some reason I couldn't install the packages from the Internet, apparently the NIC wasn't recognized. In fact I don't recall being given the opportunity to tell the Debian installation about my NIC. Hmm. I am calling out to the other Debian users here to give me some pointers in setting up Debian (partition sizes and names, packages). Here is what I intend to do with Debian for a while on my 13+gig HD:
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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