How to master linux in 20 steps

[pitupepito2000]

Hope it's not a respost
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7434

 

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2) Set a number of tasks that you want to be able to accomplish within the first month. Write them down and track your progress. Be ambitiously sensible. Whether it takes you a month or two, it does not matter. Real knowledge of something gained in two months is preferable to shallow knowledge acquired in one month.

I like this, this is what I do. I go "I want to do this" instead of looking up stuff that may be easy. You want to do something you do it, then you learn on the way. It's like a journey. That's how I learned.

3) Document, document, document. Keep a log of what you do on your computer. It is one of an administrator's most precious tools. Even if you are the single user of your computer, you are still its administrator. Your "admin log" will make troubleshooting easier. It will also make the same task easier next time that you have to do it.

I tried to do this, but I am very bad at it.

6) If at all possible, dedicate a specific computer to run Linux on a permanent basis. If you dual-boot, you are not likely to leave your comfort zone.

Definately. Scrapping windows is the best way to go, if your dependant on it. It's like jumping into the deep end of the pool vs wading at in the shallow end gripping onto the gutter. Sink or swim.

It's nice though to make sure that you have internet access on something somewere aviable for when you get stuck and can't get access.

7) Realize that you are expanding your skills and that you are likely to have some cognitive dependence on whatever OS you used before Linux.Once you break this cognitive dependence, you will be a more knowledgeable hacker, and maybe, even a better human being.

I learned more about Windows in 3 months of using Linux then all the years of using Windows.

8) Realize that all operating systems suck, just some do more than others.

Damn straight. ALL OS's suck.

9) Corollary to eight. Just because you do not know how to do something now, it does not mean that it cannot be done.

13) Realize that all that is worthwhile requires work and sacrifice. There is a price to be paid for not being able to control the bits that pass through your computers. The sooner that you gain control of your computing, the better off you will be.

I can't beleive how many people beleive it's a waste of time to learn about stuff. How many people use cars everyday, their livelyhoods depend on them getting to work and back. But how many of these people can't change their oil or change a flat?

If a person doesn't have time or the resources to understand something, then it's perfectly excusable. But to remain purposely ignorant out of laziness or bad attitude is almost a sin.

19) Move slowly but steadily. It may take you two years to get to where you want to be, but if you do not start now, you'll never get there.

Definately. Plus your brain is like a muscle, it gets stronger the more you use it.

 

[Sunner]

I can't beleive how many people beleive it's a waste of time to learn about stuff. How many people use cars everyday, their livelyhoods depend on them getting to work and back. But how many of these people can't change their oil or change a flat?

If a person doesn't have time or the resources to understand something, then it's perfectly excusable. But to remain purposely ignorant out of laziness or bad attitude is almost a sin.

Couldn't agree more.
It annoys the hell out of me when people who need their computers to do their job(pretty much everyone in the business) refuse to learn even a little bit about their basic functions.
Not asking them to learn how to setup BIND, configure an AD, or whatever, but geez, just learn how to properly use Window, or whatever OS is in use at the workplace :roll:

Not doing so is like a cab driver who doesn't have a license and can't find his way around town.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Just because I _can_ change the oil, doesn't mean I want to.

And those damn airguns put the bolts on quite snugly on tires. :|

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Just because I _can_ change the oil, doesn't mean I want to.

I don't want to either, but I still do.

And those damn airguns put the bolts on quite snugly on tires. :|

Of course if you knew how bad it is to use airguns to put on nuts you'd be pissed from them doing that.

If you put the bolts on too tight it will have a tendancy to warp your rotors, which makes disk brakes pulse. Normally this isn't a bad thing, but it's not a good thing either. It's a bit harder on the bearings, and a bit harder on the break pads. Nothing realy horrible, warped rotors are more annoying then anything else. May confuse crappy anti-lock breaking systems, I expect.

Also increases the likelyhood that you will strip a nut or break the bolt next time you need to take a the wheel off. Plus it makes it near impossible to change a flat.

Basicly they aren't suppose to use the air guns at all on the lug nuts, it over-torques the bolts. But they still do it because they are lazy, it's quicker, and they know most people don't know that they aren't suppose to do it.

But that's just hows it goes.

 

[HKSturboKID]

I use to work for a rim and tire shop long long time ago. To imagine doing 10-20 set of rims by hand will pretty much kill you. As technology develope, its suppose to make our life easier. The more advance it is the less we have to interact. It can be good and bad thing. Hey I think they have a new movie coming out about it from Will Smith about the robots that turn bad.

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: HKSturboKID
I use to work for a rim and tire shop long long time ago. To imagine doing 10-20 set of rims by hand will pretty much kill you. As technology develope, its suppose to make our life easier. The more advance it is the less we have to interact. It can be good and bad thing. Hey I think they have a new movie coming out about it from Will Smith about the robots that turn bad.

Sure sure. That will certainly tire you out. (har har.)

But like everything else, there is a right way and a wrong way. There wouldn't be anything wrong with zip'ing them up with a impact wrench on "low" (or whatever) or a air-driven ratchet and finishing them up by hand with a lug wrench with a nice long handle. (In a nice star pattern of tightening.)

Beleive me, there is a good reason I decided to be a computer geek rather then a mechanic (it's a lot easier on your back and hands). Even though I probably would be making more money right now at my job if I was a mechanic.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: HKSturboKID
I use to work for a rim and tire shop long long time ago. To imagine doing 10-20 set of rims by hand will pretty much kill you. As technology develope, its suppose to make our life easier. The more advance it is the less we have to interact. It can be good and bad thing. Hey I think they have a new movie coming out about it from Will Smith about the robots that turn bad.

I've considered posting this in OT, but I don't think they'd get it. You opened pandora's box (thanks ), and this isn't directed at you or anyone else in this thread really.

DON'T SEE I, ROBOT! Assimov is turning over in his grave right now. People (other than just me) should be extremely pissed off about the hollywoodization of what is classic literature! I groaned when I heard Will Smith would be in the movie to end all movies, but I got over it. Then I saw the trailer. I wanted to vomit. It's absolute filth. The robots DO NOT REBEL. The 3 laws of robotics prevent open rebellion like that. In fact, each of those robots would have blown a few circuits WAY BEFORE they started to rebel. Logic is a fickle thing.

This could have been the first movie I ever went to see 3+ times in the theatre. I'd be singing Will Smith's praises if they got this one right! But no. They can't get the simple 3 laws of robotics down! WTF?! Bastards. Ruin one of the best stories ever, so that children get scared instead of learn a little something!

SCREW HOLLYWOOD!

Ok, I'm done. I seem to have misplaced my copy of I, Robot. But I think I know where the Harlan Ellison written screen play for it is (which would have made a perfect movie if the cronies in hollywood had cajones). The stories I grew up with, twisted and perverted into.... Into.... Pop culture.