Reference tools at a wonderful site

[dedanna1029]

You may have run into it already, but this morning I was looking up some rsync options, and up in the search came stuff from thegeekstuff.com.

An awk introduction/tutorial

Turbocharge Putty with 12 powerful addons (we use putty for my Unix class)

25 Most Frequently Used Linux IPTables Rules Examples

8 Essential Vim Editor Navigation Fundamentals

... and, the one I was looking up this morning, How to Backup Linux? 15 rsync Command Examples, including Preserving timestamps, SSH password-less logins, Synchronizing files from remote to local, backing up remote or local servers, and a ton more.

This site is awesome! Very well worth taking several hours at least to troll, and learn some new (or old) things, such as file permissions, which of course will lead us to a search at the site for chmod. I'm sure there's more. They explain things simply, and to the point, in every step they take you through there. There are no questions unanswered, that I've found, about Linux or Unix.

[viking60]

Good find. Can't talk now...must dig some more on that site
Many of the tips you find there are also already elaborated here in the Tips and Tricks section - like ssh keygen

[dedanna1029]

Yes, but there's also a good deal that isn't. I've found that I can spend hours there at a time... learning a lot. The problem being, of course, that I don't have anywhere to spend right now with it being mid-terms right now, and a lot of school to make up from having been sick.

Just another year and a half to go, I keep telling myself. *sigh

I emailed off to my Unix instructor about this site. Hope he finds it useful, too. His experience with Linux/Unix is actually quite limited. One job with it in the military, performing the same thing over and over until he retired. It's great because the students are actually the instructor, other than doling out the work. LOL.

Please forgive typos. Am on my phone.

[viking60]

You are hereby forgiven And you are just beeing modern; I have read somewhere that mobile phones will replace the laptop.
Regarding Linux teaching you will just have to pick their brains of whatever is there. We all have something to learn, so it is important to pick whatever one can.
The workshop model might work just as well as the expert teaching, I guess.