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Well, I think I need to take this post to explain what’s been keeping me busy before I get back to my lesson-type blogs. What I’ve been doing has certainly been about Linux too. I’m setting up a small business to provide virtual assistant services to people who have web businesses, but that’s more like [...]

I was starting an entry on using pico in shell last time, but a long distance call came in and swallowed up all the time I had saved for this blog. Things have got still busier for me in the last two weeks, as I’m preparing some offices for a business I will start in [...]

I’ve had another personal experience from which to draw some good advice. At our Canadian Thanksgiving my brother announced that he had bought himself a new computer because the old one had died. It would only go as far as BIOS and that seemed to indicate he had no hard drive any more. Well, I’d [...]

I was going to go on with the lessons on using command line commands in the shell, but I’m pressed for time so I’ll just share another personal experience that may be of help to you. I’ve had a problem the last few weeks with doing my regular Saturday update to my Suse 10.1. I [...]

I need to interrupt my series of Linux lessons in this blog to give you some lessons learned through personal experience. First, do not update the kernel in Suse 10.1 – at least, not on this computer! I had that experience one weekend the beginning of September. I normally do my backups and then an [...]

Before I ever tried or owned a computer I read about them, and decided that what I needed most for my writing career to take off and prolific was to have a computer. That would put an end to pausing to throw the typewriter carriage back to the left at the end of each line. [...]

The weekend of September 9-10, just a week after Labour Day, was a tense time over a kernel panic. Actually, I believe my primary hard drive crashed and died. But that’s in retrospect. So I’ve decided to interrupt my series of lessons to share my experience, because there are some key lessons there for you [...]

When I switched to Linux I learned a lot from the mistakes I made. Old habits from Windows were my downfall in several instances. For example, when I ran into a problem and things seemed frozen, I hit Alt-Ctl-Del keys to simply sigh and re-boot like I was used to doing in my Windows 98. [...]

I’m as curious as the proverbial cat, and I’ve just found out what some of the directories and folders in an Linux operating system are for – so of course, I’m eager to share this information with you. That’s assuming you are as nosy as I am. Still at the command line in your terminal… [...]

Thank you for your patience as I’ve been off on very practical and heavy-duty responsibilities with my Dad’s estate and with moving myself and all my stuff into a wee little house in the city. I am now buckling down to work again. So I’ve just been checking to see what I was doing here [...]