======Part 2====== =====Entries===== ====Entry 1: October Day, 2012==== LETS PLAY WITH PS1!! There are several PS lines to work with, and right now, we are going to play with the PS1 line. PS1 is an environment variable and is determines what your prompt looks like. Maybe you'd like your prompt to show the absolute path that you are standing in. Maybe you'd like to play your ego and have your prompt beg for a command (kinky). There are many ways to customize your prompt, especially when you start working with the other PS lines. You can even change your color scheme! lab46:~$ echo $PS1 \h:\w\$ lab46:~$ PS1="victory@\h:\w\$" victory@lab46:~$PS1="\u@\h:\w\$" dsherbur@lab46:~$PS1="\u@\h:\W\$" dsherbur@lab46:~$PS1="\s\\\T\j\#\\\$"" > ^C dsherbur@lab46:~$PS1="\s\\\T\j\#\\\$" -bash\T06$whoami dsherbur -bash\T07$PS1="\s;\T;\j\#"job"\\\$" -bash;12:21:10;08job$PS1="\s;\T;\j\#"job"\\\$ " -bash;12:21:26;09job$ Dates, hosts, jobs, command numbers, and thats just PS1! Working outside of lab46, like, say, on Ubuntu, you can get programs like Bashish and really change the look of your terminal. However, changing the PS1 line in lab46 is only temporary and will revert to a default state when you log out and log back in. ====Entry 2: October Day, 2012==== LETS GET A JOB!! So. we've learned a lot about using a unix/linux system, but where does that get us? Well, one route to go with this new-found knowledge is becoming a UNIX/Linux administrator. Junior admins can expect to make about 55k/year while senior admins can expect closer to 90k and up. Not too shabby. These positions can require a bachelor's degree and several years of experience in a related field such as IT. Job growth and compensation is set to increase over the next several years, thereby growing demand for technically inclined folks with a solid linux background. Careers in technology in general are set to grow in the future anyway, so this isn't much of a surprise. ====Entry 3: October Day, 2012==== FONT CHANGE (MAYBE)! I MISS ARIAL!! After playing with the PS1 line for a bit, I realized how much I enjoy working with linux on my home computer. I looks a lot better, what with the color and screen resolution and all. So I wonder if I can change the font on lab46. This would be a good experiment. ====Entry 4: October Day, 2012==== UNIX IN GERMAN? LOLWTF! In addition to UNIX Fundamentals and Calculus 3, I am also taking German 1. I think I'd like to live in Germany one day, hopefully before another republican gets elected president. To successfully expatriate myself, I need to be proficient in the native tongue of the country I am seeking to live in. I also need a set of skills that would get myself a job so I'm not homeless and stuck in a foreign country. So, my question is, is there a German language version of unix, more specifically bash? I know that German and English are pretty similar, and there have to be computer-related jobs in Germany as well as the rest of the developed world. Do they have a different set of commands that make sense to a German-speaking programmer? Regular expressions would stay mostly the same, but what about commands like cd and ls and cat? On article I read said that even though Linus Torvalds was from Sweden and learned English as a second language, he preferred using it when talking about computer stuff to his comrades, even if they spoke English as a second language. There is some talk about English having a more extensive technical vocabulary, and that if programming languages like C and bash each had a different version to agree with a certain natural language, it would be a massive project and it most likely would never be finished. So, I guess being a natural English speaker is going to make me a wizard in Germany someday. =====Keywords===== {{page>unixpart2&nofooter}} =====Experiment 2===== ====Question==== What is the question you'd like to pose for experimentation? State it here. ====Resources==== Collect information and resources (such as URLs of web resources), and comment on knowledge obtained that you think will provide useful background information to aid in performing the experiment. ====Hypothesis==== Based on what you've read with respect to your original posed question, what do you think will be the result of your experiment (ie an educated guess based on the facts known). This is done before actually performing the experiment. State your rationale. ====Experiment==== How are you going to test your hypothesis? What is the structure of your experiment? ====Data==== Perform your experiment, and collect/document the results here. ====Analysis==== Based on the data collected: * Was your hypothesis correct? * Was your hypothesis not applicable? * Is there more going on than you originally thought? (shortcomings in hypothesis) * What shortcomings might there be in your experiment? * What shortcomings might there be in your data? ====Conclusions==== What can you ascertain based on the experiment performed and data collected? Document your findings here; make a statement as to any discoveries you've made.