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 ======UNIX/Linux Fundamentals Journal======
+====May 2nd, 2016====
+This week has been extremely blazé just reading through the EoCE and researching thing I will need to know to complete it. I really wish I didn't get so uptight about responsibilities and grades. The last few weeks of any semester are enough to drive me right to the edge of sanity. This semester, in particular, however is turning out to be acceptionally so. This class has been, by far, the most educational class I have ever taken. The other class I am taking at the moment is a lot more confusing to me and although I am learning some things about software development and system analysis that I didn't realize before, but it is definitely not my cup of tea so to speak.
+I think the best thing I am taking away from this semester is a clearer picture of the educational path I want to peruse beyond my associates degree and some fields I absolutely do not want to peruse. I love trying to figure things out.  This is probably why I love math and computer "hacking" so much.
+I just have to learn how to relax. And I really need to learn how to manage my time and loan out projects better. Two more weeks and then I can breath again for a while. :/
+====April 25th, 2016====
+This week has been pretty uneventful. I am spending as much time as possible going through a video playlist on youtube to really gain a deeper understanding of scripting in Unix. It is enlightening and extremely helpful. One thing I learned, which I started to grasp last week but didn’t fully understand, was the importance of starting batch files with a version of unix being used to write the script. I found it especially interesting in relation to writing CGI for web pages, which I’m sure has nothing to do with the fact that I am a web design major.
+I have also been reviewing the information in the EoCE to get a good feel for the wholes that are in what I have learned to this point. I also plan to go back and review all of the labs we have done thus far. Hopefully this upcoming week will be filled with clarifications and a more comfortable feel for what I have gained from this course.
+====April 18th, 2016====
+I have a ADD. I was diagnosed years ago. This week, I have learned two things about this aspect of my life. Although I have a very hard time focusing, or at least staying focused, when it comes to computers, I am hyper focused. I have easily spent more than 20 hours this week on this project. I also have a tendency to get so focused on shoving a square peg through a round hole that I don't take the time to really evaluate the situation. One of the mistakes I made that took an exceptionally long time was a syntactical error that would have been sooner discovered by really concentrating on the structure of the command rather than seeking out alternative commands that would accomplish the same thing.
+This has made me think a lot about how I can start organizing my time better. What can I do to plan out projects in a way that will help me to NOT get so hyper focused on one task that I lose literally hours of time going down random rabbit holes. I have tried this, maybe frivolously, in the past, to no avail. Guess it is time to find a system that will work for me.
+====April 11, 2016====
+This has been another thought provoking week. I can’t learn enough fast enough. I am continuing to work on the udr2 lab as I fumble through the syntax of Unix scripting. Although I have taken a C++ class before, trying to alter the code from last weeks’ lab proved more difficult that I had originally thought it would be. Slow but sure getting there.
+The lab for this week, upr0, looked like it was going to be a piece of cake. I had this one. The read, write, and execute settings for user group and everyone else is something I remember well from my admin days of old. However, the joke was on me. The Set UID, Set GID and Sticky Bit settings were completely new and foreign to me. The first time I looked at it, I thought I had it. But I was seeing a correlation between the first character in the permissions set and these new gems that wasn’t there. I really like the way the lab was formulated though, because by the time I finished the last set, I really felt confident that I knew how to read the permissions accurately. The only problem that still remains is that I have no idea what these special settings are used for or what purpose they serve. More research for a less busy time in the future.
+====April 4, 2016=====
+Information Overload‼ Ok. Not really. But every week I feel closer and closer to connecting a LOT of dots. And every week, I gain a deeper and deeper understanding of the functionality of the computer machinery. The whole mentally exhausting process it like having a name on the tip of your tongue and no matter how hard you try, never being able to quite remember it. I feel like I am getting closer and closer to a “core” understanding (pardon the pun), but every time I turn a corning, there is another stretch of path and another corner.
+For every answer I find, I think of two more questions. If files can be broken down ultimately into binary and “decoded” how can encryption and data security ever truly be trusted? How can there ever be an encryption process that cannot be cracked.
+The process of programming ultimately takes human readable code and breaks it down into machine language that “explains” to the computer what it is supposed to do. I have always perceived that binary is used with machines to represent a series of switches that are either on, or off. I guess I still see It this way, but my propensity toward thinking so far down the rabbit whole seeking the origin of it all makes me wonder. If the zeros and ones are on/off switches, who came up with thee system that says a certain combination of 8 “switches” is the representation of an actual alpha “a”. The plot continues to thicken and the next corner can never get here fast enough.
 ====March 28, 2016====

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