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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? How to become more confortable on my computer? Post 302978854 by bakunin on Thursday 4th of August 2016 08:14:57 PM
Old 08-04-2016
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Originally Posted by despiragado
Hi all, Lately I have being practicing several ways to improve on the amount of time i spend reading and coding on my computer.
First: it gets easier. With everything you know instead of having to learn it you need less concentration to do things. It is like driving a car: when you start you wonder how to keep all that in mind: using the blinkers, switching gears, using the clutch, accelerating, decelerating and all the while monitoring closely the surrounding traffic. You can't imagine going for several hundreds of kilometers in one go. Once you have driven for years you spend a lot less of conscious effort and going for hours is still exhausting but manageable.

Second: if you sit down at your computer you can't just "start programming". What you need is a goal. The best goal is some "itch to scratch". If you have a certain task you want to get done automatically and you write a program/shell script to do so you have an immediate motivation to do so. Doing sterile exercise tasks is a lot less motivating.

You might not get immediately there. That doesn't matter: the journey is the reward. Have a lot of versions and get yourself into a mess because of this: good! You will not only learn how to use versioning systems, you will also appreciate what they do for you. To appreciate being rich you need to understand what it means to be poor. So all the mishaps that happen to you there will make you search for ways to avoid them. This is what "learning the trade" is about.

And the most important thing of it all: have fun! The more fun you have, the more you will do it and the more you do it the better you will get because of the training.

bakunin
 

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u3b

machid(1)							   User Commands							 machid(1)

NAME

       machid, sun, iAPX286, i286, i386, i486, i860, pdp11, sparc, u3b, u3b2, u3b5, u3b15, vax, u370 - get processor type truth value

SYNOPSIS

       sun

       iAPX286

       i386

       pdp11

       sparc

       u3b

       u3b2

       u3b5

       u3b15

       vax

       u370

DESCRIPTION

       The following commands will return a true value (exit code of 0) if you are using an instruction set that the command name indicates.

       sun	  True if you are on a Sun system.

       iAPX286	  True if you are on a computer using an iAPX286 processor.

       i386	  True if you are on a computer using an iAPX386 processor.

       pdp11	   True if you are on a PDP-11/45tm or PDP-11/70tm.

       sparc	  True if you are on a computer using a SPARC-family processor.

       u3b	  True if you are on a 3B20 computer.

       u3b2	  True if you are on a 3B2 computer.

       u3b5	  True if you are on a 3B5 computer.

       u3b15	  True if you are on a 3B15 computer.

       vax	  True if you are on a VAX-11/750tm or VAX-11/780tm.

       u370	  True if you are on an IBM(R) System/370tm computer.

       The  commands  that  do	not  apply will return a false (non-zero) value. These commands are often used within makefiles (see make(1S)) and
       shell scripts (see sh(1)) to increase portability.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       make(1S), sh(1), test(1), true(1), uname(1), attributes(5)

NOTES

       The machid family of commands is obsolete. Use uname -p and uname -m instead.

SunOS 5.11							    5 Jul 1990								 machid(1)
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