And she likes wandering around in her bra!

[cosmolinguist]

First, our CSci professor reminded us of what we'd talked about during the last class (which Sarah and I slept through--for shame!): "What does 'ftp' stand for? Does anybody remember?" The silence got to me, so I mumbled, "File transfer protocol." I don't know why I know this stuff, but I was just glad I got it right and didn't say anthing idiotic.

Then we got to do some Unix stuff.
mkdir public_html
chmod 755 public_html
cd public_html
Woohoo.

"Unix commands, Sarah!" I said with exaggerated enthusiasm. "Isn't that cool!"

"It's wonderful, Holly!" she answered with equal overexaggeration.

But she does really like telnet for checking her e-mail, which I think is funny. And this morning I showed her the games my computer has, which include xBill. She liked that a lot, and is better than me at it already. Of course, she may only ilke it because of the little icons for all the OSes. "Look, they have a Macintosh!" she said. She read off some others I don't remember, and then was also excited at the appearance of Linux, because she thinks the penguin's cute. Of course he is.

I told her if she likes old-school command line things and Linux games, maybe we'll assimilate her some day after all.

Comments

[firni.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, public_html. I finally figured out that the lack of that particular directory was why I couldn't access squat on my personal webspace for the ISP.

Reading the FAQ actually works sometimes. For me, anyway.

[cosmolinguist]

Yeah, there's often a reason that those questions are frequently asked. Funny how that works. :-)

[firni.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my dad always told me to "read the damn manual". Go figure.

[kratkrat.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a fun class. Have fun assimilating the uninitiated!!

[silverwraith.livejournal.com]

I took a class about online poetry (or e-poetry, for short) and our final project was to write a 5-page essay and put it on a webpage with approximately 10 HTML links to outside pages. I had never made a webpage before. I didn't even know I had available webspace on the university site to host pictures and documents. (apparently I have for the past 4 years and not realized. go me.) anyway, I learned what an FTP was and felt so incredibly computer literate. or at least, I learned what the acronym stood for. I still don't really know what it is.

CS is not my prefered area of study, as you can tell. :P

[cosmolinguist]

I've never done anything more webpage-esque than this here journal o' mine--what html I know is because of LiveJournal, so it's not an extensive body of knowledge ... but I know enough to know that making a web page isn't hard--well, it can be, if you want to be like that, but it certainly doesn't have to be.

Some people in my class seem absolutely astounded that they themselves will be responsible for something that's on the Internet they think so highly of ... but I know it all comes down to a few simple tags (and yes, ftp:-) ). Maybe that just means I'm disillusioned.

Oh, and until yesterday, I didn't know I had available web space at my university either, so don't feel bad.

[silverwraith.livejournal.com]

I was blessing LJ for giving me my little HTML knowledge, as well. see, it's not just something we do because we are bored and lazy! it's educational! yeah. I felt so smart because I knew the codes for hotlinking things and italics and boldface type. heheh.

perhaps the universities should be more forthcoming and actually inform us that we have webspace.