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Re: Learn the ways of Linux-fu, for free

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Post by ymse »

metasean wrote: post #30
roninb wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are a lot of little typos (such as stating '..' and '-' arguments for 'cd' labeled as "previous directory" or suggesting Ubuntu uses Debian because it's made by Canonical). I wonder the best way to contact the author about revising these small but obviously not terrible errors.

There's a "Contact Us" section in the footer that points to - contact@linuxjourney.com

The author is also active in this thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4m4mko/i_made_a_site...

Re: Learn the ways of Linux-fu, for free

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Post by tremon »

roninb wrote: post #27
ake1 wrote: post #3

think some keys got mixed up here: h or the left arrow - will move you left one character j or the up arrow - will move you up one line k or the down arrow - will move you down one line l or the right arrow - will move you right one character

There are a lot of little typos (such as stating '..' and '-' arguments for 'cd' labeled as "previous directory" or suggesting Ubuntu uses Debian because it's made by Canonical). I wonder the best way to contact the author about revising these small but obviously not terrible errors.

Also, Debian "Testing" and "Development" (which should be "unstable") are not rolling releases. They both experience feature freezes while the next stable is finalized, and "unstable" isn't even a complete release -- it's merely an overlay on top of testing. And the way it's currently worded suggests that you can only use dist-upgrade when you're on testing, which is not true.

Re: Learn the ways of Linux-fu, for free

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Post by mercer »

kawera wrote: post #9
OneOneOneOne wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good point. Does anyone have a good web based bookmark tool? I hop between a dozen machines on different networks so keeping bookmarks is kind of tedious.

I've been using https://pinboard.in for years and can't recommend it enough - it's brilliant.

I'm a/was fan of Maciej and the 'fight' he's fighting, and signed up for the full-archiving solution (that indexes saved pages) in part because of this. So far I'm rather disappointed in the whole thing. For some reason I get an error message when I try to do a full-text search, and I've 1) approached the pinboard twitter account, 2) sent two emails to support spaced > 1 week apart, and 3) asked multiple times in the IRC channel.

Honestly it actually affects the support I had for the the anti-startup 'I can run a business on my own and grow it myself' narrative that pinboard represents.

Basically, don't use pinboard if you expect any kind of support.

EDIT: plus, for some bizarre reason the full-text search doesn't work on pinboard's own notes features, which was something I just assumed would be the case. Big letdown.

Re: Learn the ways of Linux-fu, for free

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Post by ddntktht »

OneOneOneOne wrote: post #7
badloginagain wrote: post #2

I wish HN had a save post feature similar to Reddit. I'm not really a bookmark guy and this is exactly the kind of site I know would be a life saver some time in the future.

Good point. Does anyone have a good web based bookmark tool? I hop between a dozen machines on different networks so keeping bookmarks is kind of tedious.

I use google.com/save and the corresponding extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-to-google/meo...

Re: Learn the ways of Linux-fu, for free

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Post by themodelplumber »

0x6c6f6c wrote: post #26
kawera wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been using https://pinboard.in for years and can't recommend it enough - it's brilliant.

$11/year? Certainly not bad, but there are hostable solutions that would work on $15/year VPSs, and that's at consumer pricing and supports multiple users. On the other hand, this is just penny pinching and <$1/mo is phenomenal.

I built my own with an off-the -shelf CMS (Textpattern) and a bookmarklet. Works great, almost 3000 links in there, searchable, etc. I wrote a tutorial on it for txptips.com.

Re: Learn the ways of Linux-fu, for free

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Post by _audakel »

OneOneOneOne wrote: post #7
badloginagain wrote: post #2

I wish HN had a save post feature similar to Reddit. I'm not really a bookmark guy and this is exactly the kind of site I know would be a life saver some time in the future.

Good point. Does anyone have a good web based bookmark tool? I hop between a dozen machines on different networks so keeping bookmarks is kind of tedious.

kifi (https://www.kifi.com/) by far the best i have ever used. its a little icon that you can position anywhere on the side of your screen. you just click it when you want to save the current page.

the great thing about it is that it indexs with your google searches. So if you had saved a link about "Sphinx Admin Configuration" that you really liked, you could forget about it and then on a google search it would pull it to the top of the list and show it as a kifi saved site.

Also cool is the social network effect, the people in your "network" you can see what searches they saved.

Re: Learn the ways of Linux-fu, for free

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Post by kawera »

mercer wrote: post #33
kawera wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been using https://pinboard.in for years and can't recommend it enough - it's brilliant.

I'm a/was fan of Maciej and the 'fight' he's fighting, and signed up for the full-archiving solution (that indexes saved pages) in part because of this. So far I'm rather disappointed in the whole thing. For some reason I get an error message when I try to do a full-text search, and I've 1) approached the pinboard twitter account, 2) sent two emails to support spaced > 1 week apart, and 3) asked multiple times in the…

I'm sorry you had a bad experience; I've contacted Maciej twice in the past for questions related to the API and he answered swiftly.

Re: Learn the ways of Linux-fu, for free

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Post by ubercow13 »

>By default the echo command takes the input (standard input or stdin) from the keyboard and returns the output (standard output or stdout) to the screen.

This isn't right is it? Echo doesn't read anything from stdin:

    echo
Does this command makes any sense?

    $ ls | grep *.txt /tmp
    grep: /tmp: Is a directory
I found the whole text-fu section quite confusing...
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