I Gotta Teach These Guys Linux

I have the goo fortune of working with a bunch of knowledgeable Technicians and IT professionals who all need to ump up their Linux Skills. So here is a typical hour of me giving them Linux pointers and advice in our chat room.

Sometimes working with computers feels like this. BTW do not enter the Russian Roulette command

(09:50:33 AM) Joe: http://bash.org/?14205
(09:51:12 AM) Dan: http://bash.org/?622896
(09:51:27 AM) Dan: http://bash.org/?877430
(09:51:31 AM) Joe: http://bash.org/?87517
(09:55:22 AM) Joe: I keep forgetting I am supposed to be coaxing you guys into learning about linux
(09:55:44 AM) Joe: Please, partake in this factual accuracy about Gentoo Linux: http://bash.org/?464385
(09:57:25 AM) Joe: http://bash.org/?673372
(09:58:15 AM) Joe: http://bash.org/?667626
(10:06:08 AM) Joe: http://bash.org/?233331
(10:06:26 AM) Joe: seriously time “uptime” in a linux command prompt – http://bash.org/?741630
(10:08:18 AM) Joe: The command prompt has a number variables it keeps track of behind the scene, they all start with $ and $ random is one of them
(10:08:59 AM) Joe: $RANDOM will generate a random integer usually between 0 and the largest valid size of an tint on your system
(10:09:21 AM) Joe: so on a 32 bit machine it will return a number between 0 and 2^32
(10:10:02 AM) Joe: we can see this used with the modules “%” to return a number between 0 and 5 here: http://bash.org/?96164
(10:10:41 AM) Joe: Yes that command works
(10:10:50 AM) Dan: what is the -rf ?
(10:23:41 AM) Joe: the -f means if you would ask me if I am sure instead just rm the file
(10:24:12 AM) Joe: the -r means recursive delete everything inside of things in this folder
(10:27:04 AM) Joe: http://bash.org/?34315
Unknown command.
(10:27:58 AM) Joe: /etc is where all the configuration files are stored, kind of like the registry in windows, but it can all be worked with a regular text editor
(10:28:13 AM) Joe: /root is for root, the admin user to store files and stuff
(10:28:45 AM) Joe: /home is the same as the vista c:\users or the xp c:\documents and settings
(10:29:17 AM) Joe: that is proper syntax for the shutdown command
(10:31:06 AM) Joe: http://bash.org/?253947
Unknown command.
(10:34:48 AM) Joe: /usr is where software the End user of a system is supposed to go
(10:35:04 AM) Joe: /usr/src is where all the source code for the system goes
(10:35:07 AM) Joe: http://bash.org/?7748
(10:35:43 AM) Dan: LOL
(10:37:00 AM) Joe: http://bash.org/?687845 – “lspci -vv” will tell this guy his answer
(10:40:31 AM) Joe: another one of complete factual accuracy http://bash.org/?849884
(10:40:49 AM) McD left the room.
(10:49:13 AM) Dan: hehehe
(10:49:21 AM) Dan: thus the creation of bash.org
(10:50:55 AM) McD entered the room.
(10:50:55 AM) mode (+v McD) by Dan
(10:51:28 AM) Joe: Linux is just a kernel (drivers and stuff), GNU adds all the commands and utilities (ls, the command line a login system etc…), then there are two major desktop environments(menus and buttons and GUI stuff) KDE and Gnome, the people who made these named much of their software starting with either k o a g http://bash.org/?639564
(10:51:37 AM) Joe: k or g

I got paid to be part of this nonsense. I got paid well to be part of this. My life is so much better than it was a month ago.