On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 21:02:43 +1000 "Shane Broomhall" wrote: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01C197BE.A6961A80 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > Hi all , > > I am planning on moving from Windows 2000 to linux with in the next month. > I have basic linux skills, but I am by no means a competent user. I am > hoping that people on this list will be able to point me towards on-line or > downloadable tutorials or books that will help me increase my knowledge. I > am familar with linuxdoc.org, and i will be getting the latest copy of the > howtos before I move across. > > But does anyone have any resources for learning scripting, html, C++ > programming, or linux configuration. Some kind of scripting that I can use > to filter my mail and so on would be nice. I have the ability to purchase > hard cover books and have many, but as they go out of date so soon, I am > hoping for free resources. I would be willing to join an online library if > I can download the books. >
I do most of my scripting in perl. There is a nice new module, Mail::Filter that helps set up mail filters. Another popular filter is Mailagent. For C++ I like the book by Steve Oualline (he also has a C and a ViM book). HTML? Hell just look at the source for pages you like. 8-) That's how I learned it 10 years ago. <soapbox> Perl has a huge support base, many good books, a huge library of modules, and even many local organizations. It was originally written to do sys admin and text munging, and has evolved to handle web tasks and much more. You won't regret learning it. </soapbox> My latest toy was to write a 29-line script that feeds the output of my callerid script to voice synthesizer code so that when the phone rings, my machine announces the caller before I pick it up. Way cool... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Alan K. Jackson | To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
