Regards,
Jason
Damian Gatabria wrote:
On Sunday 05 January 2003 19:18, you wrote:Damian, HOW did you get to the point in your Linux experince that you found out he answer to Walt's question? What are good ways to learn this stuff to get to the point of helping others? KeithHi.Well, i don't consider myself a very experienced Linux user yet, as most of the posts i read here generate answers or comments that often exceed my experience. I probably have a considerable amount of experience dealing with the more "common" apps since this is the use i'm trying to give to my computer. I live with my parents, and the occasional visit from my sisters who might want to open an excell spreadsheet, or a video file. Since my family is, of course, only familiar with Windows, my effort to keep Linux installed on this computer has led me to the need to make stuff as dumbed-down as possible. As an example, one day i was asked "how do i copy a CD in Linux?".. After making a swift attempt to explain superuser mode, cdrecord, cdparanoia and whatnot, i ended up making an alias for it. Something like: alias burn-audio-cd="su;cd tmp;rm -rf ./*.wav;cdparanoia -B;cdrecord -audio -v -dev=0,3,0 speed=12 ./*.wav" so my sister only had to open up a shell, type burn-audio-cd and enter a password, and everything was done by itself. Of course, all those parameters i used, (the actual fact of making the alias itself) came from a lot of "man" reading, and simply trying to make my computer work. I guess i do nothing special, just try to make my computer work for me and my family, and in the meantime, i get to learn a lot about it. I dream about being able to use what i'm learning to help make a Linux distribution (maybe help Mdk)... maybe someday in the future. Who knows. Damian
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