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Post 4381 by alwayslearningunix on Friday 1st of June 2001 05:37:55 AM
06-01-2001
Hi aliissa
I don't live in Portland
In fact I don't even live on your side of the pond, I'm in the UK - I was just aware that Portland is in Oregon.
The LUG in Portland:
http://www.pdxlinux.org/
I am sure they will be willing to help beginners to Linux, these Linux people tend to be friendly fellows - take a look at Neo and PxT
I'm not too familar with the college that you mentioned, but I am sure it will give you a very good beginners introduction to UNIX if that is what the couse is designed to do. Just as a general pointer I would ascertain if they have hands on learning, i.e. if they let you mess around with UNIX machines while you are learning, and it is not just a solely theoretical course. In my experience there is NOTHING more beneficial than learning something in theory and then trying to apply it in practice on a UNIX box, and in a test/learning environment it is even better since you're not worried about messing things up. In fact you often obtain a wider skills base when things go wrong since it then becomes a troubleshooting as well as a learning exercise.
You might also want to look into getting yourself a UNIX shell account, your ISP may give you one for a nominal charge, or you can search the internet for shell accounts. This will be useful to you in your early days of learning UNIX, as you get more advanced you're going to want your own machine, where you can have super user access.
If you need any more help please don't hesitate to ask!
Regards.
I don't live in Portland
In fact I don't even live on your side of the pond, I'm in the UK - I was just aware that Portland is in Oregon. The LUG in Portland:
http://www.pdxlinux.org/
I am sure they will be willing to help beginners to Linux, these Linux people tend to be friendly fellows - take a look at Neo and PxT
I'm not too familar with the college that you mentioned, but I am sure it will give you a very good beginners introduction to UNIX if that is what the couse is designed to do. Just as a general pointer I would ascertain if they have hands on learning, i.e. if they let you mess around with UNIX machines while you are learning, and it is not just a solely theoretical course. In my experience there is NOTHING more beneficial than learning something in theory and then trying to apply it in practice on a UNIX box, and in a test/learning environment it is even better since you're not worried about messing things up. In fact you often obtain a wider skills base when things go wrong since it then becomes a troubleshooting as well as a learning exercise.
You might also want to look into getting yourself a UNIX shell account, your ISP may give you one for a nominal charge, or you can search the internet for shell accounts. This will be useful to you in your early days of learning UNIX, as you get more advanced you're going to want your own machine, where you can have super user access.
If you need any more help please don't hesitate to ask!
Regards.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
phalanx
PHALANX(6) Games Manual PHALANX(6) NAME
Phalanx - Chess playing program SYNOPSIS
phalanx [options] [<moves> <minutes> [<increment in seconds>]] phalanx [options] [<seconds per move>] phalanx bench phalanx bcreate [options] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the phalanx program. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but may be used by others), because the original program does not have a manual page. phalanx is a chess playing program. It is partially xboard compatible. Under xboard, it can play games, force & undo moves, and show thinking. In this version, you cannot set positions with xboard. It is also possible to run phalanx without xboard. Do phalanx -? to get a list of command line options. One important command of pha- lanx's ASCII interface is help. phalanx uses (traditional) 10x12 board implementation. There are three often used board implementations: "8x8" (GNU Chess), "bitboard" (Crafty), and "10x12" (Nimzo, Phalanx). In short, "10x12" is easy to implement and the code is small (==fast on PC). Opening book is small, simple, hand-written. OPTIONS
-t <transposition table size in kilobytes> -f <fixed search time in seconds> -x <+/-> xboard mode on/off default: on -p <+/-> permanent brain on/off default: off -s <+/-> show thinking on/off default: off -c <+/-> cpu time default: off -o <+/-> polling input default: on -b <+/-> opening book default: on -r <resign value in centipawns> default: 0 (no resigning) -e <easy level 0...100> default: 0 (best play) -l <+/-> learning on/off default: on -v print version and exit -P <primary book directory> -S <secondary book directory> -L <learning file directory> -g <log file name> EXAMPLES
phalanx -c+ -s+ -o - -x- -f 60 -t4000 xboard -fcp "phalanx -l+ -r800" SEE ALSO
/usr/share/doc/phalanx, xboard(6) AUTHOR
Phalanx was written by Dusan Dobes <dobes@math.muni.cz>. This manual page was written by Stephen Stafford <bagpuss@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux project, but may be used by others. It was written with the assistance of help2man(1) and then edited slightly to clean it up. Phalanx XXII May 2001 PHALANX(6)