Comments by "John Hunt" (@syrus3k) on "Veronica Explains" channel.

  1. I always like to describe public keys like locks and private keys like ... keys. I find this works well
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  2. props for using amiga workbench for your example. Soooo cool.
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  3. My ZX Spectrum manual was sooo good.
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  4. Also it had wicked cover art too.
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  5. Lol the marge simpson ref.. absolutely love it. I think she's neat.
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  6. Not written by an AI lol.
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  7. xeyes lol
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  8. You talk in exactly the same way as the guy on the technology connections channel... That is very freaky.. Are you related?!
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  9. Amiga vim!? Amaze!
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  10. Here's my terminal tips! 1. Stop typing 'exit'. Ctrl+D. 2. Stop using home/end keys: Ctrl+A / Ctrl+E 3. Learn to use Ctrl+R - recursive backwards search through history. This is massively powerful 4. Undo? Yup, it's ctrl+shift - (I think.. only in my muscle memory?!?) 5. Learn some basic vim, it's not that hard and makes a lot more sense when you understand the modes 6. Remember you can pipe outputs of commands into other commands.. this can help you be lazy: find . | grep -i somefilename # A bad but working way to find all files in the tree with somefilename The terminal isn't the be all and end all, but I find it way, way better for getting around the filesystem than any gui. When you learn various other tools the benefits of the terminal become apparent.. you can start plugging one thing into another using pipes etc and you can't do that with gui tools (afaik?!) It's like learning anything though.. it won't happen overnight.
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  11. my first linux was slackware or redhat.. a long time ago. Back then it was disgusting trying to get X to run..
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  12. I really liked Ubuntu when it came out.. it was basically Debian but up to date.
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  13. All I needed to know about sudo was this: sudo su - bwahaha!!
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  14. Please for the love of god, use find rather than piping paths to xargs!
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  15. Loving your videos Veronica, thanks! Didn't know about this tool but it's far nicer for reading the news than websites.
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  16. Ps aux pipe grep nano, kill.. Etc?
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  17. While I'm here, please check out using ln to create hard links, or rsync to create hard links. Amazing for creating delta based backups..
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