of course, the title for this blog is taken from the film, “Educating Rita“. If you’ve not seen it then very basically, its about a hairdresser who has educational aspirations, she changes her name and starts an open university course, and in so doing, changes her life.
I don’t pretend quite the same lofty life changing aspirations with this, more.. that i want to learn about slackware. I’ve written some about this in the “about & why” page, but more than just a boring series of notes i also want to write some of my observations about this path i’m on, provide links to useful places, and generally provide a non-geek’s perspective into a geeky world. I hope it’ll be funny in places, as well as useful, to me, at least.
This isn’t all of my life: i also love cooking, gardening, many other things (which i write about on my main blog) and as such sometimes this may have to take a bit of a back seat to the other things in my life. however, i’ll try to keep learning, even if the learning is a little bit ad hoc and stuttery.
I’m a reasonably bright lady, with some basic computer knowledge (I did Computing GCSE, and have worked with computers for years, although mostly as a secretary/adminstrator) so i have a good grounding for it. I used to have an old BBC Micro Computer as a kid (Chuckie Egg still rocks!), graduated onto Microsoft Works (going back nearly 20 years now), then to Dad’s Microsoft Windows computer which he got for an OU course – which ran Ami-Pro as a WP, and other Lotus software – and which i taught myself to use in the early 1990s. Eventually moved to Microsoft Office with the company i worked for, using MS Access and other databases very successfully, but always as a user, never as admin, never using code or any kind of language (not even in queries, never used SQL, just point and click). I didn’t let go of Windows until after i met Michiel – in fact, didn’t even know Linux and Unix existed.
Anyway. here we go, off on the journey. You coming?
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