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documentation dated pre-2000

Here are some basic commands you might need to use your shell account:

cd [dir]
change current directory
chmod [mode] [filename]
ch
cp [filename] [path/newfilename]
copy file to new location
ls
list files in current directory
mkdir [dir]
make directory
mv [filename] [path/filename]
move file to new location
pwd
shows the path name of your current directory
rm [file]
remove file
rmdir [dir]
remove directory (use rm -r [dir] to remove a directory with files in it)

chsh
change the login shell
df
show how much disk space is available on system
gzip [filename]
compress file, use gunzip [filename] to uncompress
man [command]
display help on specific command
ps [-flags]
view processes, use ps -aux | grep username to view processes running from your account.
kill [pid]
kill process, use kill -9 [pid] to kill process without saving
talk [user]
pages user for chat, [user] is their email address on the server
who
see who is logged on the server

ftp [host]
FTP program

irc
Internet Relay Chat
/SERVER
/join
/nick
/signoff

lynx
web browser

pine
e-mail program
pico [filename]
text editor

telnet [host]
telnet


Most people don’t use unix shell accounts much anymore. This is a document that was written somewhere around 1999. I know because I used it when I worked in tech support at night for my parents ISP. OMG, memories. ;) I found this under some really oooooold html files I wrote/copied for the original darkbluesun.com. I honestly don’t know where all the info originated. It looks like something I copied and consolidated. It’s worth a pre-dated post. I am posting this under March 14, 2006 because that was the last time the html file was modified. However, this information is much older.

Fwd: G I R L F R I E N D S‏

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I sat on the porch overlooking a beautiful mountain lake on a summer day, enjoying a glass of wine with my Mom. Older than me, mother of four, experienced and wise. “Get yourself some girl friends,” she advised, swirling the wine in her glass. “You are going to need girlfriends. Go places with them, do things with them.” What a funny piece of advice, I thought. Hadn’t I just gotten married? Hadn’t I just joined the couple-world? I was a married woman, for goodness sake, not a young girl who needed girlfriends. But I listened to my Mom and I got back in touch with my old girlfriends of years long gone. As the years tumbled by, one after another, gradually I came to understand that Mom knew what she was talking about.

Here is what I know about them:
Girlfriends bring casseroles and scrub your bathroom when you are sick.

Girlfriends keep your children and keep your secrets.

Girlfriends give advice when you ask for it.Sometimes you take it,
sometimes you don’t.

Girlfriends don’t always tell you that you’re right, but they’re usually
honest.

Girlfriends still love you, even when they don’t agree with your
choices.

Girlfriends might send you a birthday card, but they might not. It does
not matter in the least.

Girlfriends laugh with you, and you don’t need canned jokes to start
the laughter.

Girlfriends pull you out of jams.

Girlfriends don’t keep a calendar that lets them know who hosted the
other last.

Girlfriends will give a party for your son or daughter when they get
married or have a baby, in whichever order that comes!

And girlfriends are there for you, in an instant and truly, when the
hard times come.

Girlfriends listen when you lose a job or a husband.

Girlfriends listen when your children break your heart.

Girlfriends listen when your parent’s minds and bodies fail.

My girlfriends bless my life.

Once we were young, with no idea of the incredible joys or the
incredible sorrows that lay ahead. Nor did we know how much we would
need each other.

Pass this on to your girlfriends and even to women you are not quite
friends with, you never know, someday they may end up being a dear old
friend. Let them all know how much you appreciate them.

My First URL

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This was seriously my first page of my first full domain address: darkbluesundownstairs dot com. I was 17. I had the address: http:// www. reliable-net. net/~sprite up till then. I started building websites at 15. Look at the old “Email me” sign! LOL, Omigosh, I can’t believe I found this content. You know, this is what a blog is for… keep track of your life, digitally and pictorially.

That page’s title tags were as follows:

www. DarkBlueSunDownstairs .com

imagine the possibilities



 



Copyright 2000
DarkBlueSun Downstairs . com

This sort of explains why I kept the odd name: history.