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How to Learn Linux by Gunpoint

Just over a year ago I knew only the basics of working with a command line, all learned when working with DOS. How to list a directory, change a directory, remove files, and so on. Basic command-line-for-dummies sort of stuff: I had never even looked at a *nix command line.

But then we got a Linux box at work to run our database, and I learned how to display and set the IP address, run patches, change the date and time, start the web server and MySQL, among a few other tidbits I had Googled that we needed to get us through the current crisis.

And now that MySQL threw a fun error 28 yesterday, I have learned a whole lot more.

And I find myself wanting to kiss JR and our Linux volunteer while, in turn, the staff wants to kiss me. It would all be quite awkward, yes, but if these people won't accept my choco chip cookies, what else could I offer?