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I’m sorry to have missed the previous deadline and I see that I may miss a couple more. I’m in the throes of packing up my Dad’s estate and house and preparing for an auction. This is more time-consuming than I first thought, and is getting busier every week. Since the material I’ve been preparing [...]

One thing I believe I forgot to mention last time is that before your installation is complete, you will be asked for your choice of a “root’ password. You will also be asked to choose a user name and password. This can be confusing if you’re used to Windows, where you rarely ever get asked [...]

(Just a note of explanation. The reason I’ve skipped so many weeks in this continuing series is because of my Dad’s illness, death and the funeral. All events which are very time-absorbing. I now need to find myself a new home and wrap things up here, but I am trying to get back to my [...]

oving right along here towards installing Linux… we have to pause to consider which method we’ll use. Much of this may be determined by the type of computer and internet access you have. 1. You can download a wide variety of choices in Linux systems, and if you have a CD burner, you can burn [...]

Moving on further in the lessons, we see that to prepare to install Linux on your computer, you need to find your old computer manuals and have them ready, just in case anything goes wrong. The new operating systems in the linux world are made to walk you through the installation so easily that most [...]

On December 14/06 I announced that I was going to start taking some online Linux courses, so I could make sure I covered the missing gaps in what I’ve learned as I went along bumping from one need-to-learn to another. This way I’ll be better prepared to teach others. So here’s where I went this [...]

By looking up things, trying various steps, like installing a linux operating system, and working with the programs, and making mistakes and learning from them — I have managed to learn quite a bit about Linux. Or so I tell myself. I’m even considering teaching others. However, today I’ve discovered, or re-discovered a series of [...]

Yesterday I had cause to rejoice that I have a Linux only computer. I went to HostGator’s forum for clients, and discovered in the announcements that back in September there had been a huge crisis, when it was discovered there was an exploit on our cPanels (where we webmasters do our administrative tasks, and it [...]

I’ve discovered there are many hard-working developers in the Linux world, who donate untold hours to developing and refining and polishing their scripts and software that works in our Linux operating systems. It’s something to marvel at such devotion. Today, while looking for new directories of places to list my sites at, I stumbled across [...]

Databases have long scared me the way algebra did in high school. It just seems way too complicated for me. So I’ve managed to back out of most situations where I was suppose to set up a database. Fortunately, most software these days has that all built in, so it’s possible to live a productive [...]