Re: how to practice.
thanks guys , learned new things and Good tips also. :) On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Freeman hew...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2012 17:18:20 +0500 Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: Ok I have been working in IT network field since 7 years and just one and half year back i have started exploring Linux and I believe, someone said to me lately that if you start loving black and white terminal then you will never look back to Windows GUI. I literally can experience this thing at the stage I am standing with Linux. As I consider myself a newbie in Linux but according to my previous experience if i don’t practice I will forget things very easy (as there are tons of commands to remember which I will forget with less or 0 practice). so i am here to ask all the old Pros that how you guys manage to remember all the commands and practice all the previous work. Since after the deployment of some Linux services there is only the log which i have to see for further errors. So how it is possible to keep in my mind all the old stuff and along with that I can move forward with the new goals. Some good ideas in this thread. I too have a search-able directory of notes. Forgot about the flash cards; so, reading this list helps refresh memory. I like to use dwww, which does a good job of searching a term in all installed docs and manuals, of which I install many. -- Regards, Freeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120520165548.1d44a6f1@Deneb.office -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAGWVfMk9LNbjgQyAN4K5up89fz1PNgp+N_Zm=vynzala35a...@mail.gmail.com
Re: how to practice.
2012/5/21 Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com: thanks guys , learned new things and Good tips also. :) You can also use flashcard program (like mnemosyne or anki) as a way to not forget commands. -- darkestkhan -- Feel free to CC me. jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source be with You. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cacrpbmgzqcbg61bidnbzoaeanqs2og1yaaz0b2_zfh9yo7l...@mail.gmail.com
Re: how to practice.
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: Ok I have been working in IT network field since 7 years and just one and half year back i have started exploring Linux and I believe, someone said to me lately that if you start loving black and white terminal then you will never look back to Windows GUI. I literally can experience this thing at the stage I am standing with Linux. As I consider myself a newbie in Linux but according to my previous experience if i don’t practice I will forget things very easy (as there are tons of commands to remember which I will forget with less or 0 practice). so i am here to ask all the old Pros that how you guys manage to remember all the commands and practice all the previous work. Since after the deployment of some Linux services there is only the log which i have to see for further errors. So how it is possible to keep in my mind all the old stuff and along with that I can move forward with the new goals. Salam, Muhammad! Almost anything that you need to practice on the computer, you can practice with this Anki: http://ankisrs.net/index.html I have a few Anki decks for Linux commands and also for programming. I don't know what I would do without it. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cakdxfknkjbdwr8wuybmnzsatabng7qgscgu+93hzm0t-riz...@mail.gmail.com
Re: how to practice.
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 04:55:48PM -0700, Freeman wrote: I like to use dwww, which does a good job of searching a term in all installed docs and manuals, of which I install many. apt-cache show recoll -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120521164245.GG24726@tal
Re: how to practice.
Hallo Mohammad, So how it is possible to keep in my mind all the old stuff and along with that I can move forward with the new goals. I do not think it is possible to remember everything. One remembers best those thing that you use regularly. What I do to help me, is to read a lot, to keep notes of tips or recipes I came across that I think I might use in the future (I use something like evernote, freemind or hnb for this). I was system administrator for about 10 years and have used Linux since 1995. Now in a different position where I mostly program and do database/web development I regularly find that I have forgotten some handy commands that I have used while I was system administrator. Fortunately it not difficult to find the solution if you know where to refresh your mind. Things like 'apropos', 'wajig search', searching my own notes and then of cause http://www.google.com ... :) Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology Universiteit Stellenbosch. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. John 11:25 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120518124256.ga2...@sun.ac.za
Re: how to practice.
On Fri, 18 May 2012 17:18:20 +0500 Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: Ok I have been working in IT network field since 7 years and just one and half year back i have started exploring Linux and I believe, someone said to me lately that if you start loving black and white terminal then you will never look back to Windows GUI. I literally can experience this thing at the stage I am standing with Linux. As I consider myself a newbie in Linux but according to my previous experience if i don’t practice I will forget things very easy (as there are tons of commands to remember which I will forget with less or 0 practice). so i am here to ask all the old Pros that how you guys manage to remember all the commands and practice all the previous work. Since after the deployment of some Linux services there is only the log which i have to see for further errors. So how it is possible to keep in my mind all the old stuff and along with that I can move forward with the new goals. Some good ideas in this thread. I too have a search-able directory of notes. Forgot about the flash cards; so, reading this list helps refresh memory. I like to use dwww, which does a good job of searching a term in all installed docs and manuals, of which I install many. -- Regards, Freeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120520165548.1d44a6f1@Deneb.office
how to practice.
Ok I have been working in IT network field since 7 years and just one and half year back i have started exploring Linux and I believe, someone said to me lately that if you start loving black and white terminal then you will never look back to Windows GUI. I literally can experience this thing at the stage I am standing with Linux. As I consider myself a newbie in Linux but according to my previous experience if i don’t practice I will forget things very easy (as there are tons of commands to remember which I will forget with less or 0 practice). so i am here to ask all the old Pros that how you guys manage to remember all the commands and practice all the previous work. Since after the deployment of some Linux services there is only the log which i have to see for further errors. So how it is possible to keep in my mind all the old stuff and along with that I can move forward with the new goals. Thanks
Re: how to practice.
On 18/05/12 08:18 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Ok I have been working in IT network field since 7 years and just one and half year back i have started exploring Linux and I believe, someone said to me lately that if you start loving black and white terminal then you will never look back to Windows GUI. I literally can experience this thing at the stage I am standing with Linux. As I consider myself a newbie in Linux but according to my previous experience if i don’t practice I will forget things very easy (as there are tons of commands to remember which I will forget with less or 0 practice). so i am here to ask all the old Pros that how you guys manage to remember all the commands and practice all the previous work. Since after the deployment of some Linux services there is only the log which i have to see for further errors. So how it is possible to keep in my mind all the old stuff and along with that I can move forward with the new goals. Thanks If you do things often enough, you remember the stuff you need to remember. And keep reading. You never know when you'll find something really useful or interesting.
Re: how to practice.
On May 18, 2012 3:40 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: On 18/05/12 08:18 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Ok I have been working in IT network field since 7 years and just one and half year back i have started exploring Linux and I believe, someone said to me lately that if you start loving black and white terminal then you will never look back to Windows GUI. I literally can experience this thing at the stage I am standing with Linux. As I consider myself a newbie in Linux but according to my previous experience if i don’t practice I will forget things very easy (as there are tons of commands to remember which I will forget with less or 0 practice). so i am here to ask all the old Pros that how you guys manage to remember all the commands and practice all the previous work. Since after the deployment of some Linux services there is only the log which i have to see for further errors. So how it is possible to keep in my mind all the old stuff and along with that I can move forward with the new goals. Thanks If you do things often enough, you remember the stuff you need to remember. And keep reading. You never know when you'll find something really useful or interesting. You can always write simple bash scripts in some work directory and comment them to remember what they do. And also, use the bash_history file, after you've set a larger limit to it. This is how I do. However, nothing beats practice -- find yourself a project and dive in after reading a bit. Good luck! I wish I was sysadminning a Linux environment :-(
Re: how to practice.
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: Ok I have been working in IT network field since 7 years and just one and half year back i have started exploring Linux and I believe, someone said to me lately that if you start loving black and white terminal then you will never look back to Windows GUI. b/w terminals are lame, most terminals support (at least) 256 colors, so use them - i like a bright blue prompt with [user@host : pwd] (actually, sometimes each field is a different color if i feel like playing). and a bright yellow cursor. i like my black background though. I literally can experience this thing at the stage I am standing with Linux. As I consider myself a newbie in Linux but according to my previous experience if i don’t practice I will forget things very easy (as there are tons of commands to remember which I will forget with less or 0 practice). so, install it as your desktop environment, use it for your servers, use it as low cost or backup routers (i'd go bsd for this but...). so i am here to ask all the old Pros that how you guys manage to remember all the commands and practice all the previous work. i remember the basics really. the rest will come as you have a problem you bang your head against for a day and then find there is a command that solves it - you don't really forget after that. seriously, (besides built-in bash or zsh commands) i probably use ls, echo, cat, file, vim, chown, chmod, nmap, lsof, iptables, ssh (ssh-keygen etc too), screen (trying tmux), perl, gdb, gcc, make, service, apt-get, yum, chkconfig, git, find, xargs, grep. what's that, about 20 commands? i even included project specific commands (and forgot others for managing vms etc) for dealing with code and network stuff. Since after the deployment of some Linux services there is only the log which i have to see for further errors. So how it is possible to keep in my mind all the old stuff and along with that I can move forward with the new goals. actually, you really shouldn't have to review logs much (see graylog2 or splunk if you feel like paying). and really, i'm going through the opposite change as you - i'm trying to get into doing more things with code on windows and can't remember simple stuff like netsh commands and the like for basic config (because i hadn't done much with windows for ~3 years). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cah_obien+mtr9kjaerxfzrg0u9z1kqtam+gzo_41qjm0dfp...@mail.gmail.com
Re: how to practice.
For me when I use it enough it sticks. But there is a old quote someone told me that I don't know the source of, but it really helped me - it goes along the lines of Why should I memorize something I don't need when I can just go read it from a book when I do need it. For me, I take that to mean learn everything you can, but for the stuff that doesn't stick, know where to find it. On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 6:54 AM, shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: Ok I have been working in IT network field since 7 years and just one and half year back i have started exploring Linux and I believe, someone said to me lately that if you start loving black and white terminal then you will never look back to Windows GUI. b/w terminals are lame, most terminals support (at least) 256 colors, so use them - i like a bright blue prompt with [user@host : pwd] (actually, sometimes each field is a different color if i feel like playing). and a bright yellow cursor. i like my black background though. I literally can experience this thing at the stage I am standing with Linux. As I consider myself a newbie in Linux but according to my previous experience if i don’t practice I will forget things very easy (as there are tons of commands to remember which I will forget with less or 0 practice). so, install it as your desktop environment, use it for your servers, use it as low cost or backup routers (i'd go bsd for this but...). so i am here to ask all the old Pros that how you guys manage to remember all the commands and practice all the previous work. i remember the basics really. the rest will come as you have a problem you bang your head against for a day and then find there is a command that solves it - you don't really forget after that. seriously, (besides built-in bash or zsh commands) i probably use ls, echo, cat, file, vim, chown, chmod, nmap, lsof, iptables, ssh (ssh-keygen etc too), screen (trying tmux), perl, gdb, gcc, make, service, apt-get, yum, chkconfig, git, find, xargs, grep. what's that, about 20 commands? i even included project specific commands (and forgot others for managing vms etc) for dealing with code and network stuff. Since after the deployment of some Linux services there is only the log which i have to see for further errors. So how it is possible to keep in my mind all the old stuff and along with that I can move forward with the new goals. actually, you really shouldn't have to review logs much (see graylog2 or splunk if you feel like paying). and really, i'm going through the opposite change as you - i'm trying to get into doing more things with code on windows and can't remember simple stuff like netsh commands and the like for basic config (because i hadn't done much with windows for ~3 years). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cah_obien+mtr9kjaerxfzrg0u9z1kqtam+gzo_41qjm0dfp...@mail.gmail.com -- Shane D. Johnson IT Administrator Rasmussen Equipment
[OT] Re: how to practice.
On Fri, 18 May 2012 17:18:20 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: (you can start by remembering that you don't have to send html formatted posts to mailing lists, at least for this :-P) Ok I have been working in IT network field since 7 years and just one and half year back i have started exploring Linux and I believe, someone said to me lately that if you start loving black and white terminal then you will never look back to Windows GUI. I literally can experience this thing at the stage I am standing with Linux. As I consider myself a newbie in Linux but according to my previous experience if i don’t practice I will forget things very easy (as there are tons of commands to remember which I will forget with less or 0 practice). so i am here to ask all the old Pros that how you guys manage to remember all the commands and practice all the previous work. Since after the deployment of some Linux services there is only the log which i have to see for further errors. So how it is possible to keep in my mind all the old stuff and along with that I can move forward with the new goals. The best to avoid forgetting things is using them: forget about the X server, forget the GUI (don't install them), jump to the console and work for there. Anyway, I as an admin, don't pay much attention in remembering the exact commands and their related parameters (there's always the man page I can quickly query) but I'm more interested in learning and applying new computer concepts, good administering and managing techniques, I mean, I'm more interested in *what* is the best to do than *how* to do it, so for daily tasks I rely on Midnight Commander which helps me a lot with the usual sysadmin's workflow. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jp614m$jg9$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: how to practice.
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On 18/05/12 13:18, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
Ok I have been working in IT network field since 7 years and just one and
half year back i have started exploring Linux and I believe, someone said
to me lately that if you start loving black and white terminal then you
will never look back to Windows GUI. I literally can experience this thing
at the stage I am standing with Linux. As I consider myself a newbie in
Linux but according to my previous experience if i don’t practice I will
forget things very easy (as there are tons of commands to remember which I
will forget with less or 0 practice). so i am here to ask all the old Pros
that how you guys manage to remember all the commands and practice all the
previous work. Since after the deployment of some Linux services there is
only the log which i have to see for further errors. So how it is possible
to keep in my mind all the old stuff and along with that I can move forward
with the new goals.
As people have pointed out, the command line is the way to go. It can be
intimidating (i.e.`rm` unless you apply safeguards, does *mean* `rm`
especially if you put a `-Rf` after it) but that's part of its beauty:
simplicity absolute power when run as root (or sudo).
I use man pages a lot. I also use vim for everything. Reading man pages
with less can be a tedious affair so I put:
`manvim() { vim -c Man$1 -c 'silent! only';}` :
`export TERM=xterm-256-color`
in my ~/.bashrc
:
`source $VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/man.vim`
in my ~/.vimrc then calling the man page like so `$ manvim foo`
they're much easier to read. For everything else, I have hard copies
of Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook by Evi Nemeth
others Classic Shell Scripting: Hidden Commands that Unlock the Power
of Unix by Arnold Robbins Sed Awk by Dale Dougherty. For
everything else, there's the internet.
As was pointed out by an earlier poster, just keep reading. I read
hundreds of pages of documentation a day on every different circumstance
I'm likely to encounter. That in itself is a full-time job :-).
Cheers,
Phil...
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Re: how to practice.
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 06:54:17PM +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote:
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On 18/05/12 13:18, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
Ok I have been working in IT network field since 7 years and just one and
half year back i have started exploring Linux and I believe, someone said
to me lately that if you start loving black and white terminal then you
will never look back to Windows GUI. I literally can experience this thing
at the stage I am standing with Linux. As I consider myself a newbie in
Linux but according to my previous experience if i don’t practice I will
forget things very easy (as there are tons of commands to remember which I
will forget with less or 0 practice). so i am here to ask all the old Pros
that how you guys manage to remember all the commands and practice all the
previous work. Since after the deployment of some Linux services there is
only the log which i have to see for further errors. So how it is possible
to keep in my mind all the old stuff and along with that I can move forward
with the new goals.
As people have pointed out, the command line is the way to go. It can be
intimidating (i.e.`rm` unless you apply safeguards, does *mean* `rm`
especially if you put a `-Rf` after it) but that's part of its beauty:
simplicity absolute power when run as root (or sudo).
I use man pages a lot. I also use vim for everything. Reading man pages
with less can be a tedious affair so I put:
`manvim() { vim -c Man$1 -c 'silent! only';}` :
`export TERM=xterm-256-color`
in my ~/.bashrc
:
`source $VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/man.vim`
in my ~/.vimrc then calling the man page like so `$ manvim foo`
they're much easier to read. For everything else, I have hard copies
of Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook by Evi Nemeth
others Classic Shell Scripting: Hidden Commands that Unlock the Power
of Unix by Arnold Robbins Sed Awk by Dale Dougherty. For
everything else, there's the internet.
As was pointed out by an earlier poster, just keep reading. I read
hundreds of pages of documentation a day on every different circumstance
I'm likely to encounter. That in itself is a full-time job :-).
+1 on vim, also vifm for file management.
You have to build vifm from source though,the ancient version in
the repos is not nearly as useful as 0.7+.
Customize keybindings and file associations, and it really rocks.
:)
--
❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤
Indulekha
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Re: how to practice.
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Indulekha indule...@theunworthy.com wrote: +1 on vim, also vifm for file management. You have to build vifm from source though,the ancient version in the repos is not nearly as useful as 0.7+. Customize keybindings and file associations, and it really rocks. vi-WHAT? you mean :E ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cah_obif_ohn_lj-anwrfi+-31xsohvhbcuq-ovzvdjaosme...@mail.gmail.com
Re: how to practice.
On Fri, 18 May 2012 17:18:20 +0500 Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: Ok I have been working in IT network field since 7 years and just one and half year back i have started exploring Linux and I believe, someone said to me lately that if you start loving black and white terminal then you will never look back to Windows GUI. I literally can experience this thing at the stage I am standing with Linux. As I consider myself a newbie in Linux but according to my previous experience if i don’t practice I will forget things very easy (as there are tons of commands to remember which I will forget with less or 0 practice). so i am here to ask all the old Pros that how you guys manage to remember all the commands and practice all the previous work. Since after the deployment of some Linux services there is only the log which i have to see for further errors. So how it is possible to keep in my mind all the old stuff and along with that I can move forward with the new goals. Thanks What I have done since my first days of learning 'DOS', is to keep a small notebook at hand jot down everything I think I might want to use into it. Not the basic stuff, but things like how to configure various services, etc. Basic commands embed themselves into memory the more you use them. The commandline is very attractive for getting things done, usually, you have more options than with a graphical program. Midnight Commander (mc) is one program to get to know, also 'screen' would be another very useful program. -- keith km3...@gmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120518192304.52e1b58f00613dcfa96cc...@gmail.com
Re: how to practice.
On Vi, 18 mai 12, 17:18:20, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: ... (as there are tons of commands to remember which I will forget with less or 0 practice) http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/refcard/refcard Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: how to practice.
On Fri, 18 May 2012 19:23:04 +0100, keith wrote in message 20120518192304.52e1b58f00613dcfa96cc...@gmail.com: What I have done since my first days of learning 'DOS', is to keep a small notebook at hand jot down everything I think I might want to use into it. Not the basic stuff, but things like how to configure various services, etc. ..an alternative notebook idea; set up a cron job to mail yourself the diff of todays .bash_history and yesterdays command line history, and, make an habit of reading and commenting on it while you still remember why and how etc you did whatever you did today. ..kept in its own mail archive, database etc, your command line history will eventually do for you what you used to come pleading to d-u for, and I guess this new habit can lift d-u to a nice new level. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120518211637.13c21...@celsius.lan
Re: how to practice.
I have a bunch of text files in a particular directory that I use to record various ideas that come to me. I generally name the files like this: i_keyword1_keyword2_keyword3.txt , so for example, i0324_toread_programming_PHP_MVC_OOP.txt So I've got this directory with all these files in them. The directory has an environment variable called $ideas . So if I type ls $ideas I get the file list and I don't have to retype the path (which is long). If I want to get the latest file I can type ls $ideas |tail -n1 If I want create a simple file I can use: echo whatever my idea is $ideas/iNNN_keyword_keyword.txt I can also use ed or vim. Actually, I could write a bash script that would automatically calculate the next index number. If I want to find ideas relating to something I can type ls $ideas |grep whatever eg: ls $ideas |grep toread that would gives me a reading list. Actually this is a list of reading lists, I could write something a bit more extensive to using xargs to cat them all together then pipe the result to less to get a complete reading list. These little exercises can give you an opportunity to become comfortable with the linux console. A couple of commands things i use frequently are cal and concalc. I want to use dc instead of concalc but haven't bothered to learn dc yet. Another idea, install and configure conky. You can learn a fair bit by playing with all of conky's options. For example, I have a particular directory containing active projects (actually, the directory contains symlinks to directories containing active projects), and my conky configuration is set to automatically display a todo list of active projects based on the contents of that directory. When I finish a project I delete the symlink and it disappears from the todo list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAAvq_=c_gntdws_92mu9mwk+m4umhhzzrxfooiurx0qq4ue...@mail.gmail.com
Re: how to practice.
Ahoj, Dňa Sat, 19 May 2012 06:54:57 +1000 Alex Hutton highspeed...@gmail.com napísal: I have a bunch of text files in a particular directory that I use to record various ideas that come to me. a am using the keepnote, the python GTK2 app for hierarchical notes with images and text formating. It provides the note's names search and fulltext search too... It is a part of testing now. regards -- Slavko http://slavino.sk signature.asc Description: PGP signature
