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Skriven 2009-07-29 12:11:34 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38)
     Kommentar till en text av Wayne Chirnside
Ärende: he got joo-joo eyeball
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Hey Wayne!

> Guess I'll leave sudoers alone.

Maybe.  Put it this way, you probably don't need it and the time learning it
could be used to leard something more rewarding such as how to manage your home
account in such a way that things like su, sudo and the such are unneeded. 
Normally a user account shouldn't need to know how to run a system only how to
use it to their advantage, whatever that might be. The problem with that idea
and GNU-Linux is that someone has to know how to get systems up and running
given that most of the time the user and the administrator are the same person.

My particular problem with all this is that I never had a teacher/guru for
anything computer.  VAX/VMS, Solaris, DOS, Linux, BSD's where all learned the
hard way whether or not I was really in charge of the system(s). It escapes me
how and why anyone learns this stuff.

> The only sensitive thing I've got here is online banking.

I don't even go that far.  Mind you my banking is pretty simple and doesn't
require a computer.  Easy to manage what you don't have eh?  :-/

> On reflection last night I thought my question stupid.

There is no such thing as a stupid question.

> in fact it's simple, though with lots of options.

Right.  I thought the mirror option would simplify your goal for having an ftp
client.  The same thing could be done with a simplified 'regular' ftp client
but then would require much scripting with (m)put, (m)get, either rm or del,
and (l)cd to achieve the same result.  I used to have to do it that way and if
all ftp sites behaved themselves a generic script could have been achieved.  I
used to do it that way when it mattered and only had a few sites to be
concerned with.

> Someday I may know half what you do about this stuff.

I wish I remembered how to use a quarter of what I used to know about this
stuff.  It appears the last decade has been mostly wasted with syncing hardware
and installations.  Lately it has been wasted keeping 32 bit in sync with what
I'd like to be doing with 64 bit.

On the plus side, as of yesterday I have a usb boot/root thingy behaving itself
without having to resort to a ramdisk or initrd.  Needed to upgrade util-linux
and e2fsprogs and get them to cooperate with each other to accomplish it. 
Going to experiment with it later on the neighbour's eeepc and a sd card which
stinkin' Asus added an interface wired to an internal usb controller.  If they
had done it right it would have been wired into the same controller as the
so-called internal hard drive and it would have saved much grief as it then
would have been identical as putting a flash disk adapter on an ide/sata
dealie.

Always something eh?

Life is good,
Maurice

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