Accessing the Remote Desktop

At first connecting to the Linux desktop on the Sandbox server was a bit troublesome. For some reason the VPN Client was not connecting. I realized that I had to login with my UA username and password then I was able to successfully connect to the desktop.

In the first tutorial, it was interesting to learn that AT&T gave UNIX to universities for free. I also learned most of the computing world in based on UNIX. The Introduction to Linux video lessons were useful as it exposed me to many commands. I am very intrigued by having the control of making changes or obtaining information by simply typing in commands. Obviously I shouldn’t try to learn it all as stated by the author but I should be aware of what the capabilities are. The Learning the Shell tutorials were important in getting hands-on experience. The remote desktop was a bit sluggish as I worked through the commands as was mentioned would be the case by the professor. The video lessons were easy to understand and were a prefect introduction to the Learning the Shell tutorials. The Learning the Shell tutorials began to get more complex as the commands started to involve more numbers and the use of wildcards. More exposure to such commands will hopefully clear up any confusion.

Ubuntu Forum - Grub

I was skimming over the different topics posted on the Ubuntu forum when I came across an interesting thread concerning "grub." The title of the thread was "Grub being funky with windows xp." I had no idea what the meaning of grub was after reading the thread so I decided to look it up in Wikipedia. Wikipedia was helpful in identifying that there are different definitions of grub and of course this term was associated with computing. However, there were two computing definitions which were briefly described as:

1. A boot loader package from the GNU Project which enables users to have multiple operating systems on their computer.

2. An open source distributed search crawler platform.

Both definitions seemed relevant to the thread and the more open-depth definitions in Wikipedia referred to terms in this week's readings such as kernel, client and operating systems. Although this gave me a better understanding, I do admit I am still a bit puzzled but hope that thing become clear as the course progresses. What I did find interesting about the forum is how informal the setup is, for example, the thread title stated "funky." Overall, the forum setup was straight forward and I did appreciate the pop-up window stating the content of the post when I placed the cursor on the title in the forum page.

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This blog was created for the Introduction to Applied Technology (IRLS 672) course within the Digital Information Management graduate certificate program at the University of Arizona's School of Information Resources and Library Science.