On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 17:47 -0500, Otto Gvert wrote: > After some research and that i'm timid at cli I settled on the Google DNS.
Nothing wrong with that or taking a different approach in general, the most comfortable route. That being said, never fear the command line, its your friend like Google. Some like Cisco commonly refer to the CLI as the Cash Line Interface. ;) Also this is not windows, as long as you avoid a few things logging in/doing stuff as root rm -R chown -R Surely not doing those things (rm -R/chown -R) as root, then most anything you get yourself into you can recover from. Short of deleting files in general, but you can even recover them via various means. But otherwise its actually some what hard to really mess up your system with the command line. Now catch 22 to the above, most times anything you do system related, installing/configuring packages, updating, etc, usually require you to have root privileges/sudo, if not be logged in as root. Using and doing stuff with the CLI much less getting things working can take some time and effort. Which can seem to be a daunting and intimidating process via the CLI vs GUI. But most things are not to bad, providing there are available instructions. How tos are like icing on the cake. Just have docs open next to your terminal window/CLI. Thats where the GUI + CLI/terminal becomes really powerful. Much less multiple CLIs/terminals a a given screen with docs. Might have one terminal viewing man page, other editing the config file, another monitoring log files or moving stuff around in the system. Plus maybe a browser or two. Always found it interesting the deeper I went into Linux/system administration and at times programming. The more you move away from GUIs to CLIs, and mostly using GUIs for multiple CLIs/terminals. Though myself I haven't ever gone as far as some. I won't be checking/responding to my email in a terminal window, unless I really have to ;) Also make sure to believe in yourself. You can't do anything you don't believe you can do ahead of time. We are all pretty much the same, and we can all be rocket scientist if we want, given the determination and will. We were all babies once, and we were all new to something before we learned about it :) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
