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PCLine_I hope it doesnt reformat my drive!  I just typed it.00:02
andygraybealhahahah00:03
andygraybealwell, your familiar with cat right?00:03
andygraybealit reverses the output00:03
andygraybealif you aren't familiar with cat.. it means concatenate.. which means to jam crap together.  but it is what i've primarily used to output stuff to the screen long before i learned of more or less.00:05
PCLine_Yep  I know cat00:05
andygraybealcool00:05
PCLine_now that I have Ubuntu running in a VirtualPC I can now learn more.00:06
andygraybeali don't mean to sound patronizing.. i'm being genuine.00:06
PCLine_All is good.00:07
PCLine_I have some much to learn.  I know just what I needed to load and setup a few apps.00:08
andygraybealit's a rabbit hole for sure00:08
andygraybeali'm assuming you just started then :)  well welome :)  i'm happy to meet you and glad you started.00:09
andygraybeali started back when novell 3 was awesome and learned to migrate people to novell 4.....00:09
PCLine_I found a program called Observium and didnt want to run it in windows.00:10
andygraybealwhen irq's meant something and upper memory was controlled with microswitches on some devices.00:10
PCLine_I then found HyperV and learned to install Ubuntu within the VirtualPC.00:11
andygraybealdip swithcs :)00:11
andygraybealnice00:11
PCLine_I can remember Novell 3.1100:12
andygraybealnice!!!00:12
andygraybealthat's the one00:12
andygraybealwe must be the same age, i'm 3600:12
PCLine_I am a little older than you.00:13
andygraybealah cool then00:14
andygraybealyou played with cygwin ?00:16
andygraybealhaving the gnu command inside of windows?00:16
andygraybeal*commands00:16
PCLine_I did once.   My system didnt like it.00:17
PCLine_I think I used it with an Eggdrop bot.00:18
andygraybeali use it anytime i encounter a windows machine :)00:18
PCLine_I dont run into Linux much.  But it seems like the monitoring and logging programs are better in Linux than in Windows.00:22
andygraybealsleep00:45
andygraybealnight00:45
PCLine_nite - good luck with your studies.00:45
andygraybealwhen you go to the /etc directory.. do you guys in your mind say 'etcetera' or do you say 'et cee' ?15:59

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