I know it’s been forever since I’ve updated this blog, so I figured I’d post a bit about what I’m doing currently. I had, a few months ago, started school again, and since this is my senior year it’s been a great time. However as my first semester has come to a close, I have lost 2 great classes (unfortunately). I was signed up for an independent study to practice for my A+ certification, a class with just me and my friend in it. It was a great learning experience, and definitely a change of pace from my usual software and programming-based use of computers. And even though I do work for Geek Squad, it was nice to have a class where I could just work on whatever.

I spent a lot of the class working with CentOS Linux, which was and still sort of is 100% new to me. I realize that most websites and web hosts use Linux-based servers, and I’ve found out through careful examination and readings that the Linux distro most commonly chosen is CentOS. So I grabbed an old machine the school had, downloaded a copy of CentOS 5, and thew that on there and started going at it. At first I didn’t really see how much different it was from Windows, until I started getting into the folder structure and such… it was all so different! I spent a good 5-6 weeks studying Continue reading…