yee olde computer speak, it's like using a ZX spectrum, it's all manual commands to look for things, I have a screen full of green shit...I don't even know what any of it means
at root, type "rm *" and press enter ... (note : don't do this) OR another good way, log in as administrator, go to root and type "chperm" - a good way to fook a system. i know from experience. hang on. i'm going all geeky and i'm not in the techy section. blah blah horsey blah blah my footie teams better blah blah picotto doesn't play techno blah blah we want more prog warm ups blah blah
unix... LOADS of help on the net!!!! But...to clear one thing up 1st...are u actually trying to learn UNIX as in howto use the Operating System or u doin summit @ uni or whatever that involves UNIX Scripting? (Programming...) PS. Av moved this thread as well into correct forum
Linux.. Dont be scared to dabble with it at all - linux these days is a LOT LOT more user friendly...... If you have a pretty powerful PC then have a look at www.vmware.com. This way you can install Linux on a VIRTUAL PC....meaning you dont need to repartition etc to get a feel for it... You simply boot up a new "pc" in a window (can have full screen) from within windows...it really is good! You will find 1 thing tho with *nix - it is a LOT LOT more stable/robust than windows operating systems....but then again it IS a big step away from what you are used to...you instantly loose all of the "everything is compatable" thing...granted you can do the same thing as I mentioned before from within a *nix system...u can have a virtual windows pc running for any windows tasks u need to carry out...or there are windows emulaters such as WINE that u can use... Have a read up on it tho (Linux is best to start with rather than jumping straight into Unix I wud say...) - regardless wot sum ppl may say..and without sounding like a sad twat...its fun Enjoy PS. SUSE Linix 9.0 - VERY VERY good distribution....its 5 CD's but if you gimme a shout n ask nicely al sort you out an evaluation version
Unix is pretty cool like, not too bad really. I particularly like the finger command...tells you who every one on the network is...and then you can send them messages i hear terrible things about the VI text editor.....since we are all UNIX n00bs here at uni, we use Pico! What exactly are you trying to do?
