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

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Post by elcapitan »

syngrog66 wrote: post #64

This is one of those HN 'anti-exemplar' posts where I can't tell if the people are serious and sincere or whether they are all involved in a satirical group troll or a self-promotion ring. Or both. In broad strokes: "Finally! After 20+ years now there's a way I can learn Linux!" "If only a way I could 'save' this and revisit later... or a way to 'share' it with others... hmmmm..." and someone just asked how to wipe a…

Actually I find that page relatively nice and well structured, not looking like some concated man pages from the 80s. And there are probably lots of experienced people (I know some) who had relatively little Linux contact before, who somehow ended up on it, doing web development exclusively on the app layer with occasional contact with the rest of the environment, who would be happy to have such a resource. It has an ok balance of in-depth understanding and concrete examples, which is not always true for man pages, and it is structured differently ("problem -> understanding -> solution" rather than "solutions -> understanding of the solutions -> find the correct problem").

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

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Post by tangue »

ubercow13 wrote: post #40

>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...

Yes I wouldn't recommend this one. And the emacs part is useless (it's a half baked cut and paste of the tutorial)

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

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Post by cherrytree »

mercer wrote: post #67
idlewords wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh crap, I forgot there even was an IRC channel! I'll fix this and credit you for a year due to the fact that you had to come to HN for actual support. The underlying issue is sometimes I burn out and flee to the woods/southern ocean for a while. But my bad work habits shouldn't be your problem.

Ha, thanks for responding. And my apologies, I was frustrated and not in the best of moods, and I don't really stand behind what I said (completely). The truth is that I think a big 'problem' in my society is not just the business-side, but the consumer-side expectations/demands too. I don't actually mind that sometimes things don't run as smoothly as they would for a product that has an entire team and/or dedicated…

I read your earlier comment last night and noticed that feature didn't work for me either. I was just about to email support this morning when I saw the replies, so I double-checked and it's now fixed for me too. So it wasn't just your account.

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

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Post by darekkay »

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

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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.

> but there are hostable solutions that would work on $15/year VPSs

Can you recommend any?

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

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Post by TimMeade »

daw___ wrote: post #25
TimMeade wrote: post #13

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I use pocket. And HN has a pocket link... It's just awesome. https://getpocket.com

Actually, it's the Pocket chrome extension that adds the "save to pocket" button.

Ahhh... We'll regardless it's great. I've been using it since almost inception. Many thousands of saved and tagged sites. It's the tags that make it great.

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

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Post by nandkeypull »

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.

Does no one use Diigo? My favorite part about it is how easy it makes it to add tags when you bookmark a page. You can easily call up things you've saved many years ago with a simple tag search. It's kind of like a better Delicious, back when Delicious was actually good. But I imagine it's also like a free version of Pinboard.

Plus it doesn't have that ridiculously large "modern" UI style that takes up so much space. Just a simple, no-frills interface with superb tagging and search.

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

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Post by emmelaich »

syngrog66 wrote: post #64

This is one of those HN 'anti-exemplar' posts where I can't tell if the people are serious and sincere or whether they are all involved in a satirical group troll or a self-promotion ring. Or both. In broad strokes: "Finally! After 20+ years now there's a way I can learn Linux!" "If only a way I could 'save' this and revisit later... or a way to 'share' it with others... hmmmm..." and someone just asked how to wipe a…

I agree. It looks nice but that's it. It's full of errors and misinformation.

People would be FAR better off with "Linux for Dummies" which despite the name is an excellent book.

And it has a free "cheatsheet" : http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/linux-for-dummies-chea...

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

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Post by idlewords »

mercer wrote: post #67
idlewords wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh crap, I forgot there even was an IRC channel! I'll fix this and credit you for a year due to the fact that you had to come to HN for actual support. The underlying issue is sometimes I burn out and flee to the woods/southern ocean for a while. But my bad work habits shouldn't be your problem.

Ha, thanks for responding. And my apologies, I was frustrated and not in the best of moods, and I don't really stand behind what I said (completely). The truth is that I think a big 'problem' in my society is not just the business-side, but the consumer-side expectations/demands too. I don't actually mind that sometimes things don't run as smoothly as they would for a product that has an entire team and/or dedicated…

Wait, pinboard indexes notes? I really doubt that. Is it possible it's indexing the bookmarks pointing to the notes? Those get pre-populated with the first N characters of the note content.

Could you email me your pinboard username? I appreciate your kind words but am serious about comping you.

I fixed fulltext search that was falling over on a caching server, so it affected a bunch of users besides you.

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

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Post by mercer »

idlewords wrote: post #79
mercer wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ha, thanks for responding. And my apologies, I was frustrated and not in the best of moods, and I don't really stand behind what I said (completely). The truth is that I think a big 'problem' in my society is not just the business-side, but the consumer-side expectations/demands too. I don't actually mind that sometimes things don't run as smoothly as they would for a product that has an entire team and/or dedicated…

Wait, pinboard indexes notes? I really doubt that. Is it possible it's indexing the bookmarks pointing to the notes? Those get pre-populated with the first N characters of the note content. Could you email me your pinboard username? I appreciate your kind words but am serious about comping you. I fixed fulltext search that was falling over on a caching server, so it affected a bunch of users besides you.

Yeah, you're right. I did a search for a word in the first sentence of a note and that works, but searching further down doesn't work. Consider the notes indexing a feature request :).

I'll email you my details, thanks.

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