(01-12-2016, 06:48 PM)pranomostro Wrote: Hey hadmatter. Have you got any specific interests? Maintaining a unix system, programming, computer-related art, interests in philosophie regarding computers and computer science? We got you covered!

Hey pranomostro! I eventually want to tackle C. For right now, I'm completely content learning and understanding how Unix works, and the neat tricks I can do over my local network with two linux machines(ssh in particular has been interesting), and starting to familiarize myself with bash and scripting. I'm learning things somewhat organically as I use the system, which is fine, and have some O'Reilly texts on relevant areas(in case my googling ends up fruitless on a particular problem). My big hurdles at the moment are:

a) What the hell is all this stuff systemd is doing?(Not that I have a stake in the systemd war, just that a daemon of this size - I'm sure it'd be the same with init - at first glance is hard to understand conceptually, with so many moving parts).

b) These guys who "rice" their systems are fucking awesome. Need to ween myself off of Gnome and truly figure out a nice tiling wm(eg i3-gaps, bspwm, etc.).

c) Okay, what do I need to know so I can monitor my network traffic to be able to see if anyone or anything is attempting anything dirty on my network.



Basically, I'm just a nerd who has always been into computers(spent many hours on the phone with free 1-800-GATEWAY tech support as a kid, when breaking my old Gateway Astro, learned a lot!), but never really "got his hands dirty" in any majorly significant way. Now, I plan to learn as much as possible to truly have a computing environment I understand, through every niche.

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(03-12-2016, 03:51 PM)oxa Wrote: Welcome to the site!

Thanks oxa! ^.^