The Cai Deming of a Linux scholar who is not in the heart of willow

Who is "Cai Deming" I'm afraid not many people know, but the mention of "bird brother" this name, in Taiwan, the Linux community is almost no men who no one hyo, Cai Deming is the name of the bird brother. How famous is bird brother? If you're a beginner who is interested in learning Linux, and don't know how to do it, 10 of 9 people will tell you to go to the "Bird's Linux Private" Web site (http://linux.vbird.org), or to a bookstore to buy a "bird's Linux private dish- Learn from the basics, because the former is already Taiwan's most popular Linux technology Web site (from 2002 to date, the number of people has exceeded 380), the latter is from 2003 published still continue to heat (last month, the Semarang Book of the Chinese computer Sales ranked 2nd), Even in the last year, a simplified version of the Chinese mainland was sold to a lack of books. It is surprising that this break, a short-Sansang, was also a PhD student in the successful university major in environmental engineering.

To make Linux easy to use and set up a Web site

    See Cai Deming himself, it is difficult to put this smile on the real big boys, and the Web site of the Linux technology is not known to the birds of the league. Referring to the Mabuchi source of Linux, Cai Deming 謙賢, compared to the previous my life in other Linux realms, he was somewhat late to touch Linux, about 1999, when the lab was planning to import an air quality model from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The software of this model must be executed on the Sun's UNIX host machine, craftsmanship millions of UNIX host machine, in fact, can not let him touch, all of a bad can sue, but always learn how to operate, had to use the old computer rack a Linux host to try, try to play the interest and the experience of it, In a world of profound Linux.

    Why create the "bird's Linux Private cuisine" website? Cai Deming's original intention was only to make the laboratory of the main machine FAQ, good for the subsequent students of the school, by Yu, most of the students did not learn Linux, and when the Web site of the Linux teaching website is too grueling deep, and decided to write a real to the novice to see the website, Let the novice who first touch Linux follow the learning.

The    "Web site was just beginning to say that 3 people in a year were happy to see that there were 10 of thousands of visitors a month and it was unexpected. Cai Deming smiled and said, "Why spend so much time on the website, it is because the study of the doctoral class has been done almost, only waiting for the text to pass through the jury to get the position, but the process of waiting is long and bitter boring, he decided with his vanity, rather than put his mind in the interest of things, That is, the teaching and research of Linux. He used the "escape reality" to explain his efforts to learn Linux power source, did not expect to "escape" out of a day.

    through this web site, Cai Deming has a lot of friends from the Linux community, and in another Linux world Heavyweight, Chan Yong (Netman,study-area station), The Chico Cram class who came to Taipei 3 years ago was a lecturer in the LPI course. To become a good lecturer, the technology must be refined, along with the process of learning, the content of the website more and more rich, in the community of the ear, "Bird's Linux private food" into the Linux beginners must make a visit to the Web site, laid his unique position in the free software industry.

never thought of becoming a few laps author

    is referred to as the process of few laps writers, can be described as "no Heart in Willow shade". The high-bit rate of the website attracted the attention of the publishers, and the Cai Deming contact with the website to turn the content of the Web site into a print. Because of the content of the book and the site is not very big, even the website update speed is relatively fast, at the beginning, Cai Deming is holding a tentative mind, and even the publishers do not think that "Bird's Linux private food-Basic Learning article" This book will be sold, did not think that after the listing, the continued high-ranking information category few laps list of the first, After the introduction of the second "server rack", the same hot sales to the lack of shipping, added last year's edition of the words have been published to the 8th brush, the estimate has sold a number of copies, in the non-teaching information type Jungle Book, called "Miracle" is also not.

    Why is the book's reaction so hot? Cai Deming is still puzzled by the edge, maybe Linux beginners are more accustomed to reading the book than the Web site. In fact, we think that the success of these two books is not amongst survivors, the content of the book is appealing because the author is adept at using live spill to witty Harmony's language, describing the original boring technique as a living soul, rather than the other information technology in the market, which flows through a large number of technical titles, and reads to make people drowsy. Cai Deming's best friend Liang described his writing as a style, a bit like "broken read Loud" in the ear of the reader, and the intimate solution of each step, so that every person reading this book, will not feel that Linux is inaccessible technology.

    Cai Deming mentioned why the book is called "Bird's Linux Private cuisine", to show that this is a beginner's perspective of the Linux self-learning, he believes that all the beginners in the beginning of learning Linux will encounter the same difficulty, It is a pity to lose a glimpse of the Linux church because of some setbacks, so when writing a Linux teaching document, he will repeatedly ask himself not to be too much of a "craftsman" to express himself in the most shallow words.

Try to get interesting from the learning process

Referring to the degree of learning that a beginner should have, Cai Deming with his own learning process, when I was in college, my first wish was to fill in the electrical system, and then, in accordance with the results of the test, into a large-size work system, although and the forecast is a bit of a gap, I want to say that since the examination is to read it well, professional courses including air pollution, water analysis, numerical value mode, Although the process of learning is very hard, and often stay up late to read the book report, he is very good at "the pain of happiness", from now on the things that are being done to discover interesting places. The same, learning about Linux or other information technology is also true, while learning the process of fun is important, but not everyone can be happy in it, most people are easy to use "not interested" as an excuse to take things as a bad reason, and this is not the correct view. If you can talk about yourself and learn to be interesting, it may not be a painful thing to learn from the fun of learning. The process of learning is difficult to avoid the bottle décolleté, but he felt that the human brain is really "enlightenment" This kind of thing, sometimes I get stuck with a problem, and I don't want to do anything for the rest of the day, go out and do some leisure activities, and often suddenly come up with a solution to the rest of your holiday, and that feels like a special accomplishment.

In return for this journey, Cai Deming thinks he somewhat lucky, for the non-trained, who is not too ambitious in his business, he has a sense of fame and status, and he is often overwhelmed by the fact that the road is a human being, as long as it is held in the right way, and everyone has an opportunity to have a day. As for the future, he thinks that there are not many concepts in the business world, and that it seems that it is inappropriate to work in the industry, and that it should remain in the academic world, from his most interesting teaching work, in addition to being straight and angry.

the value of learning Linux

"Brother Bird" Cai Deming that Linux is the operating system of the open, you can define it in which domain it is suitable for, but it is not originally designed for individual users, in his personal definition, Linux is a server operating system, and it is a system of servers that is If the hard to take to compare with Windows, because of the low level of Linux in the desktop platform, as the overall view of Linux compared to Windows, to learn Linux, it is very unfair.

Cai Deming likes to take an example, the Windows System Manager is not stable to the computer, the way to solve the problem is often re-irrigation again, the Linux system managers will first try to find out the cause of the problem, to be ruled out.

Why does this kind of difference happen? The reason for this is that it simplifies all of the service's settings, and managers are accustomed to using the mouse to "next", naturally not to the cause of the problem. Not to be sure, Linux is better than Windows science, managers have to be equipped with a certain degree of technical basis to be able to use the hand, but learning Linux at the same time, also learn how to face the problem and solve the problem of the correct attitude, is the value of learning Linux. Wen ⊙ Zhang Zhi Hung

"It people" Cai Deming
"Bird's Linux private cuisine" station

School Experience: PhD candidate at the Institute of Environmental Engineering at the National University of Science, Kun Shan Kejida, adjunct lecturer, Chico Computer Education Center lecturer
"Bird's Linux private cuisine-Basic learning article" and "Server rack Design" two books

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