The last time I wrote code for anything was about 15 years ago using Turbo Pascal. I would like to get back into it, most likely to create some mobile apps or enhance web sites. What is the best general purpose language to learn? And what is a good method for learning, preferably free?
View 1 RepliesI have been working on CentOS from the last 6 months. I want to know that which scripting language is best to learn.I heard about Python and bash scripting.And I think Python is fastest among others.
View 8 Replies View RelatedWhich scripting language to learn for Linux Administration? Python, Ruby, Perl, or PHP?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI would like to know the meaning or purpose of using "~" symbol in scripting language..The line is uri=~"sip:q@192.168.64.75"..
View 6 Replies View RelatedComing from a C and C++ background, with a little SQL at university, I was wanting to move to web development and implement an idea of mine for evaluating movies. In a nutshell, the idea is this: produce a score for each movie by only taking into account opinions of people of your age and psychological profile, as derived from a questionaire. Or a score derived from the opinions they have given about other movies, the more match there is with your opinions about those movies, the higher the coefficient for their opinion in the production of the movie score.What's the easiest way to implement this, what language is the easiest to learn?
View 7 Replies View Relatedi recently got a french msi wind U100x running on linux suse enterprise 10 sp1. (i am french and wanted a light netbook with french keyboard)i am totally new to linux and i believe that msi wind is not helping.because i am more used to english for settings, i set the main language to english, but it seems that it automatically reconfigures my keyboard mapping to english as well, so that azerty becomes qwerty.i reset it back to french, so now my keyboard is french, but so is the system.is there a way to differentiate keyboard from main user setting language?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI want to learn shell scripting. So where to start and what are the prerequisites? Are shell scripts portable among different linux os? (Does a script written for CentOS, run on Fedora or on Ubuntu without any modification?)
View 4 Replies View RelatedHow or Where Can I learn the terminal commands?
View 11 Replies View RelatedI have a folder that may contain text documents, pictures, MP3s, video clips, all sorts of stuff. Supposing that, within reason, I'm not too bothered how long it takes to compress and uncompress them. And suppose I don't care if it's free or open source (well, has to be free as in beer). What's the best compression format/algorithm (whatever it is that I install in Synaptic and choose from the drop down menu in the compression tool) I should use?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI want to create a general switch that I can use to send a signal to my ubuntu server when it is activated/deactivated. Here's an example: I want to know when a certain door is open, so I can have a switch closed when the door is closed and opened when the door is opened. When opened or closed, the computer will receive a signal and I can have some software intercept this signal and process it to my liking (i.e. ring a bell/text message me/email me/etc).
I know I will have to create a simple driver, software to make use of this signal, etc... I am willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen. I'm just wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction as far as which interface I should use to communicate with my server (i.e. usb, serial), which references I should read, and any personal experience you have with something like this...
I am trying to learn shell scripting and came up with a lil first script that I could actually use.I have a basic shell script and all it does is run:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
So basically just a shell script that updates your packages. NOW, my question. I made another shell script that makse a bit of a menu and asks what you wanna do, 1 to UPDATE or 2, to CLOSE. How do I make it so when they enter 1 it runs my update.sh ?
I am starting to dive into Linux after being a Microsoft geek for years. Where is the best place to start?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am just starting to learn Linux and am interested in a career in Linux. Actually I wanna go for RHCE, which is the first step for Sys Admin..right?? Basically I do NOT want to go into programming/developing as I don't feel it's my cup of tea (and also may be it sort of boggles me). Still, from what I gather I am having confusions regarding whether I should learn any programming language for a career in Linux.
Here I am avoiding programming..and now I get to hear that Linux career uses programming..That's sort of frustrating...My friend told me I need to "master" C. Do I need to learn some programming language?? If yes, then to how much extent?
can anybody tell the use of make file in Nis server.
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhat is the purpose of bash scripting? Is it just for file manipulation?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI've always been confused about this issue of boot partitions. In the past when I install linux I usually have 2-3 partitions.
1. Main OS partition mounted on /
2. Storage partition mounted on /home
3. Swap partition
Why and when would I need to have a boot partition? Even if I dual boot two OSs, I just make one more partition for that other OS. So what's the purpose of a boot partition?
Can you explain me what is purpose of shebang in scripts? I have noticed that my scripts will run without shebang. i.e. When i save my crontab file it says that scripts will be executed in i.e. /bin/sh shell. So, what is the point if I put #!/bin/ksh at the start of script?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI attempted to run various cron jobs as root - just general server make-tidy stuff. But if I edit the /etc/crontab file directly, these tasks don't get run. However, if I use crontab -e as root, these jobs appear to work. Any idea why this might be the case? Also, I understand that user cron jobs are stored in /var/spool/cron/<user> (including root). If this is the case, what's the purpose of the /etc/crontab file?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am very new to Slackware and Linux.
I was able to install and run Slackware 13.0. But I have no clue to install anything to Slackware.
Can some one kindly explain step by step how can I install pidgin-2.5.9-x86_64-1.txz ?. It will be a great help.
How can I learn Slackware?
What is the purpose of libc in an operating system?
Is the libc is common for all OS or it is different for different OS!?
I mean source of libc build for RH is same for Ubuntu !?
I have been trying out in learning with logrotate command and logrotate configuration file )logrotate.conf custom logfile for an process is 'test.log'
Code:
#cat /etc/logrotate.d/test
/var/log/test.log {
rotate 4
[code]....
whenever the log file (test.log) exceeds 100M a new file will be created with the file name as test.'date'.'gz'(new file is created with a current date and in a compressed format of gz) and also with permission mentioned above). I really dont know what is the role of rotate( will this be carried on only for next 4times i mean upto 400MB; (4times*file reaches 100MB)? and also what could be the purpose of postrotate?
I'm confuse about different beetwen console and terminal in linux system? And what purpose them for?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI would like to learn basic linux commands and editors (eg : vi). Am using windows and it is difficult for me to install linux in ma laptop. So is there any free linux login servers available in internet so that I can login to server with putty and try using basic linux commands and editors.
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhat would be a good book/manual to read to learn more about linux o.p. systems? and how to use them.I have to add I may not have such a good internet connection I might end up with free dial up (Bummer)so I'm not sure if a link will do.I will end up at the library anyway. so if you could suggest something that would be good, I'm not really looking for the history but more like how to use, maybe the terminal and such?.
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhat good does getting into single user mode do?And what's the basic purpose of it , i.e is it maintaining purpose???
View 2 Replies View Related"Life has been made easier with all Microsoft systems, all versions of Dos and Windows, because each of them has to be installed in an active primary partition and so hence will always has a boot loader in the root partition." So if I already have Windows 7 installed (in a 100gig partition of a 1t hdd) how do I modify the windows booting process so that I can go on to create many additional partitions that will be used for linux distros?
View 7 Replies View Relatedwhat is the purpose of using hard links instead of being a shortcut to some file ?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have some music in another language, but when I open the songs in Banshee, their song names just come up as weird characters (like μ).I went to [System --> Administration --> Language Support] and installed support for that language, but the songs still come up like μ. (But in Nautilus, their proper names show).
I know the solution is to change my whole system language to that language, but I don't want to do that, as I am not very fluent in it. Is there any way to enable support for that language while keeping English as the language used to display my desktop?
One computer .... three users .... three languages. How do you make that happen? User A speaks English and is happy with English. No problem. User B needs to use Chinese and would like the full system in Chinese. User C needs to use Thai and Chinese. They would prefer their menus to be in Thai and can use iBus for Chinese entry. How do you set up the system so that each user can select their system language when they login?
View 4 Replies View Relatedis there some way to change keyboard language to specific language by hotkey?
For example:
Shift+Alt+1 - English
Shift+Alt+2 - Russian
Shift+Alt+3 - Ukrainian