SLACKER!!

That’s right, I’m a slacker. I decided to start using Linux more and more because I really need to improve my skills. I am running Slackware 11 after having problems with PHP and MySQL on v9. I never did figure out what my problem was, it seemed like I wasn’t the only one having it, but no solutions were found to make it work. I am in love! I am mad at myself for not using linux more often, I think I just didn’t give it enough time. Whether you are a power user or basic user linux is a big learning curve. If you are a basic user of Windows you probably do not understand how DNS works, how to configure things via the command line a lot of skills that power users are used to doing. If you are a power user and you move to linux you are probably required to use Windows in your daily life, either programming on it or using it for something more than a work processor. This causes a couple problems; the first being you have to relearn a lot of method of altering the system configuration and learning the vast array of commands available on linux. The second problem is making sure you can maintain a working knowledge of both at the same time. I am not a computer so my memory is not perfect, but I would have to say it is pretty good, but when I try to learn too many things at one time it is not as effective. I know a lot of people who wouldn’t remember their name if people didn’t use it while speaking to them. Recently I have had to explain how to network a printer about 15 times and each time I was showing them how to do it. This is a bit off topic I guess, but I don’t understand how a person can’t understand that if they want to learn something they need to pay attention and be willing to learn. Computers are not easy for everyone to learn, but it gets to a point where you shouldn’t think about becoming an expert if you can’t pick up some simple actions.

Now that I have ranted about people I have to deal with I will get back to the subject. My original goal was to avoid doing anything in X unless I could remember how to do it in bash. That has worked out so-so; I do all editing from a terminal on my windows machine using vi. I had forgotten about cat so I have also been using vi for reading of files, so I have started to use cat file | most as of 10 minutes ago. I have spent a lot of time in the past two days just moving around, learning permissions and editing with vi. Obviously those are not the only things; I am not a slow learner. There is so much to learn though.

Other than just the general need to learn it more thoroughly my recent desire is to prepare myself for my next employer. More employers are requiring Linux knowledge and with what I know now I feel comfortable using it or a regular basis. I am very hopeful I will get the job I interviewed for recently, but we will see. I have already commented on the interview so I will not go into that now, but not hearing from them at this point hopefully means they didn’t rule me out right away.

Wow, I started working with X-Win32 and ran into a lot of problems and couldn’t find any solution to actually getting KDE to show. So lame it was easy in the end, but I just spent hours doing it and forgot I even wrote this post so it is time to go to sleep. Night people

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