Here we are yet again! My sophomore blog post is long overdue, but to be frank, there's a lot of CompTIA to get through and I was burnt out by the end of the chapter. So for all intents and purposes, this is my week two blog post and I'll be shifting to a more consistent schedule soon enough.

So, what have we been covering these past couple of weeks? Well, initially it was the standard Linux fundamentals for elevating privileges - absolutely necessary in order to configure a working system. More recently we've delved into file ownership and permissions. This stuff is very similar to the way NT assigns file and folder attributes, but with the fun addition of number strings to memorise with chmod. The three numbers represent what level of access owners, users, and others have to a file. Some kind of math thing probably. I love Linux, but sometimes you can really tell that the REAL nerds designed it.

Funnily enough, I wrestled with HTML Comment Box for an afternoon and finally tamed the beast right after my initial post. Their servers then went down for a weekend, so I couldn't show it off. Eventually HTML Comment Box went back online, thankfully. So here it is now - a functional comment box that I can moderate myself. If everything is as it should be, there will be a unique comment section for this post and every subsequent post. I see there are already a few comments on the last one, which is exciting! Approving image posts seems a little wonky however, as even after I approved an image comment, it didn't show up. Alas.

As a little bonus, I've included a marginally more interesting image for this post. My latest gimmick is composing the blog posts using Joe's Own Editor from a terminal in the antiquated Mac OS X Mavericks. I always appreciated the flow of WordStar, as one never has to leave the home row of keys to navigate through the document. It's also distraction-free and lets me focus on the writing. I didn't realise that Joe actually includes a WordStar like mode called jstar. Now I feel right at home, no MS-DOS required.

This is supposed to show an image of my Panopto error page.

Composing this post with Joe - note the radical Glass_TTY_VT220 font and Joe's word-wrap jank

I'll see you next time!