On 20/03/14 22:05, Thorsten Gonschior wrote:
Hi to you all out there, new to the BBB, new to Linux, new to whatever?
This is no request for a particular solution but somehow a thought to
whats wrong with me, ... or some of the others?
Never worked with Linux or Unix, never did anything else than windows
and TI embedded stuff. I would think of me as a professional senior
engineer for embedded systems, automotive and industrial control.
Now, I entered the embedded Linux world and I am thrilled and
frustrated at the same time. Before some days system and software
engineering was somehow deterministic to me, something you plan and
do. yea, welcome to waynes world.
After reading some hundred hours in the internet, peeking through
about 12 new books I bought like hands on the beagle bone black for
hyperdummies down to realtime driver development in
subatomicmicrokernels I am almost as clueless as before. almost ;)
After trying to do some really complex stuff like hello world on a php
web page I am beginning to understand that I have to let go some very
basic principles of thinking like an engineer if I want to act in and
survive this new scene.
My first impression on the BBB was somehow, oh wow now I can do
everything I always wanted for free. Today I am more on the way of
thinking what I could do if noone or nothing unavoidably unseen screws
me up, kicks me in the back and stabs me with a fork in my ass (in my
sleep).
After this esotheric discourse for all you out there finding yourself
here I will come to the encouragement thing I promised.
You cannot make it run? its not there? dont know where, why, how or when?
Its there and it is quite simple and so much more complex you will
ever imagine. Know what? give a damn, go get it and make it any way
you can.
Newbie/Noob Rule 1: there is no correct way, there ist never only one
way, and what ever way you find out, if ever, its the wrong one anyway.
Newbie/Noob Rule 2: dont do it on your own. its already there. dont
even start thinking how you can solve a subtask. just go and get your
component out of the internet. talking caipirinha serving robots doing
your laundry, just call for it. it will never be a 100% solution. be
happy if it works just good enough, more or less. On the other hand,
if you do it on your own, how perfect would you think you would do it,
after endless doing your stuff ..... There is just nothing you can do
on your own against the 10.000 man years of productive work you buy
with your cellphone ;)
Newbie/Noob Rule 3: dont believe in all the creeps out there. my
impression is that there are seemingly 50 people out there not talking
crap. they are easy to find.
Newbie/Noob Rule 4: if you are confronted with the fishermans feed
fish and net crap, skip the page, its not with it.
Newbie/Noob Rule 5: I dont know how, but all the people out there
managed to make it somehow. even if you have no Idea what you are
doing, in the end it works. you dont know why, or for how long, but it
does. thanks and regards to all of you out there contributing to this
vast community. With the stuff you do and how you do it, you would not
have survived in any kind of industrial working environment. On the
other hand this so professional industrial working environment is just
loosing the edge against you. And that feels great :D
In direct words to the BBB and my experiences of the first days:
after two days of stumbling around to understand how to get ubuntu on
my BBB I was able to set up my SD Card and power up the ubuntu. Just
early enough to undertsand that Angstrom ist not half as bad as
everybody tries to state. Now I am back to angstrom and I like it (today).
After endless discussions from guys who tried to provide the perfect
way of setting up a so much better web server and endless attempts
from me to make those explanations work, I found out that the BBB
comes with a webserver and to enable stuff like php its just a two
lines command. it works fine to me (today).
After reading horrific stories of how not to find a working FTP server
solution for the not usable and totally crappy Angstrom distribution,
I found out that I had to load and start an SFTP capable transfer
program on my windows machine, connect it to my BBB and do stuff I
better had done but reading these stories.
Some more of this happened.
My conclusions are:
1. No you dont have that problem! Its just that creep over there who
fumbled his BBB or OS to death. Do your own stuff.
2. No its probably not perfect but its great and it works (most of it)
3. Angstrom server is currently down. I am missing documents on the
distribution and some manuals or tutorials that are NOT written from
the wise guys out there.
4. I am looking forward to work with this great device, the good
community and these damn ideas I still have with the BBB
My only real issue that I have no idea what the Angstrom is realling
capable of and what really comes with it. Yes I know I can read the
manifest, but it does not read like a Perry Rhodan SF Story to me,
more like the matrix reverse with black letters on a dark screen ;)
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In my long career I have had to work with about a dozen different OS's
on many different hardware platforms from PDP-11's, Burroughs TC500,
Univac Mainframes, IBM/Amdahl Mainframes, Sun/Fujitsu SPARC Enterprise
servers and lots more, often dealing with multiples of them at the same
time as part of earning a crust.
It's dangerous to approach a new OS or hardware platform with the
attitude that you know all about computers and they must all work the
same way or else they are in some way impenetrable.
Forty-five or more years ago it was appreciated that different OS's and
hardware was the norm so you had to approach each one differently and
there was no shock in dealing with anything new.
My advice as always is to recommend saying daily to yourself "I don't
know jack about Linux" and just get on with it.
Leave the baggage behind, it's a handicap.
Regards
Sid.
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Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support
Senior Staff Specialist, Cricket Coach
Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks
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