Unit 5 - Adding Users

I think that it went well, overall. There was a good time I had to spend on troubleshooting, then come to realize that the trouble was a result of a typo. Though I hate to say that these problems actually help me understand things a little better and make me be more careful at the command line. Overall, I think it is cool to be learning this. I am impressed with everything that can be done, who would have know? I think that this is going to benefit me in the future greatly, at least the exposure and not being scared or intimidated to try such tasks when I need to, Not to mention the ability to have a greater understanding of what Unix/Linus and the general overview of how they are used. I actually have an admiration for Unix administrators, and those the write scripts, there is a lot to learn and I am sure it takes a great while to master it enough that you can maintain an good system. I have to say, it was so much better adding users with a GUI interface, I guess when this is what you grew up using it is hard to open your eyes to see that there are other effective ways of doing things.

Unit 4: Reflections on using Commands

The hands on assignments are definitely necessary. Practice helps. The readings before hand are essential so that when you get to doing the assignments you are not totally lost, at this helped me. I have to admit that I was a little weary of starting the actual commands. I think i understood it and the tutorial really helped. I most definitely need more practice to become more comfortable. I am excited about learning though. Some of the commands i practiced were from the tutorial like seeing the list of files under a directory and creating a backup. This is all easy to do with instructions but wonder if at the moment when I don't have them in front of me how will I remember the command and the proper syntax. All in all, everything went well. I am excited to earn and practice, hopefully I retain most of it because it does seem to become more intimidating as we get more into it. I guess I am so stuck the GUI interface that it is going to take some getting used to reprogram my head.

Unit 3 - Booting Ubuntu

As of right now I have not had much success with booting Ubuntu. I went into my system's BIOS to change the boot order and as of yet that has not helped. I am going to try once again to download the product and save it to another CD and see what this does.

I hope to have full access to the tutorials very shortly. I have been having many issues creating my net ID. Just a few minutes ago I spoke to Coleen and the Grad college and everything should be done by today. I will happily start doing this tutorials as this will hopefully signify that there will be no more access issues. Right now..off I go to try to download and install Ubunto again.

Unit 2: Assignment 1

Good afternoon,

I will address the "Why does Windows OS's prone to Viruses or always a target by hackers?" post.

I was attracted to this post because at work, especially with individuals that are technically savvy, we regularly have discussions on a PC environment versus Apple. I understand all the points made by the different users, especially as far as the percentage of market share they hold, their own platform administrative rights and the such. To me, all and all, any deficiencies that may be in a system still do not not provide others the right to maliciously hurt/damage other individuals property by means of viruses and the such. I do not want to defend one certain type of operating system or a PC versus MAC, but if Microsoft is used by the large of a segment, then it is so unfortunate that they are at the highest risk for damage. But, we should all take precaution to protect our property and valuable items, as we would with our home.

Mara