This week we played around with a command line interface in Linux through a remote desktop connection. Luckily, I had no trouble using the remote desktop connection. I expect my luck in the running smoothly department to run out eventually, but will enjoy it so long as I can. The command tutorials were interesting and reminded me of my first BASIC course in high school oh so many years ago. Initially it was very straightforward, but the level of complexity the commands can reach is really quite amazing and a bit daunting. The absolute and relative pathnames explanation made sense because again it related back to previous HTML experience. There are also lots of typing shortcuts which the writer recommends you use, but for someone like me who likes things to be very explicit the typing shortcuts save me not that much time in exchange for somewhat more confusion. I think I will type things out for now until things come to me more naturally. I also think alot of it will make more sense when we are actually using the commands for real work instead of playing around with files I didn't create and don't really understand. I am afraid to play around too much for fear of screwing something up I can't fix. I definitely think I need more practice with the input/output redirection and linking together multiple commands using pipes. The potential of all these commands is really cool, but like I said kind of daunting to a beginner...

Ubuntu

First blog assignment was to read through some of the posts on the Ubuntu User Forum in the Absolute Beginner Talk forum. That is definitely me - absolute beginner! As such, of course the first thing that caught my eye was the "New to Ubuntu? Start here..." sticky post. Looks like lots of links to useful information when we move forward on installing Ubuntu. after skimming over the resources there, I started browsing the problem posts. I don't consider myself to be a pessimist, but I am kind betting on something going wrong at some point. I subscribe for the "hope for the best, prepare for the worst" school of thought :) I though arming myself with some knowledge of potential problems might help me freak out less when they happen to me! Looks like I could facing all sorts of issues, such as wireless connection no longer working, mouse and keyboard no longer working, screen resolution problems, and even the screen simply going all black and the monitor going to sleep. Okay, so deep breaths. Hopefully none of this will happen to me, but it was cool to see how responsive and helpful some people are on the forums. That makes me feel better!

Welcome

Hi! Welcome to Mouse Manor - official blog for my Introduction to Applied Technology Course for the University of Arizona's Graduate Certificate in Digital Information Management program.