All is transitory. Despite getting Gina’s laptop to boot (and even to boot windows) it crashed again. And now I can only get to it from DOS. I managed to grab all of her important files, but some others it would be nice to have are too big to fit on a floppy. I bummed a crossover cable from Steve and am going to try to move those over to my laptop.
Working with Gina’s crashed machine forced me to learn a little DOS. I come at DOS from a Unix background (for most people, it’s the opposite way: DOS first, then Unix). There are tons of pages on the web that map most of the commands for both, usually to help DOSers get up to speed on Unix. Maybe I’ll write one tailored for Unix/Linux users whose wives DOS/Win laptops crash. :) But for now, I’ll like to note a few here (the bare essentials):
| Unix | DOS |
| cp | copy | ls | dir or dir /w | | more | /p |
| cd | cd |
| cd .. | cd .. |
| man | /? |
It’s threatening to snow. Everyone is taking work home so they won’t have to claim vacation time. As long as the phone lines don’t go down, I’ll be able to telnet in and work on the server (which is very nearly ready for prime time. We almost have Samba working the way we want it to and Dave says the IP masquerade is working again).
Man, that’s it. I’m ready to go home…