Puppy Linux FAQ

11/18/09 Puppy Linux FAQ goes online.

Puppy Linux FAQ regularly sets new daily standards for page hits. I set new personal best records for numbers of articles added per day.

12/21/09 A near fatal crisis rears its ugly head.

I experience one of the worst moments of my life. The site database develops serious errors. Some articles cannot be edited or deleted. I have made a seemingly innocent mistake. I add an article but forget to give it a name. This means it is visible in the front end but cannot be found or deleted in the backend.

I remember enough about the problematic article to be able to find it with the site search facility. It has an entry and the first few sentences are visible but that’s all. Then I remember to search by the article ID number and I successfully pull it up but I still am unable to delete or edit it or give it a name so that it will be visible in the backend.

I am panic stricken. Then things get worse. While experimenting in the backend I repeat the same idiotic mistake and unknowingly add two more articles that I can neither find, edit or delete when I do find them. But the fecking things are clearly visible on the front page. I even see a blank entry as the number one newest FAQ. I waver between severe depression and rage at my own stupidity.

As I have no idea how to remedy this situation I do the only thing I can, I continue to add articles and hope I can find a way to fix the problem and save the most important work I have ever done.

12/23/09 I fix the database.

After sleepless nights I decide I must manually edit the database. I have never before attempted such a thing. I know diddly squat about databases. I read and review all six thousand lines looking for anything that looks like an anomaly. I have no idea what I’m looking at. After a while I identify five lines that to my untrained eyes look slightly wrong. I delete them and do a restore. To my immense relief I find I have fixed the problem. Never have I had a more white knuckle moment with computers.

12/24/09 I add one hundredth article to the Puppy Linux FAQ.

This is a red letter day. Not only do I add the one hundredth article but in the last twenty four hours this site gets over 500 hits. And that’s just for starters. In future it will get thousands and then tens of thousands of hits per day. Who knows how many hits it will eventually get!

I have found that one thing in life that has always eluded me. Not a hobby or some piddling job but a truly Great Work. Something that I can devote my whole mind and body to. I will work all through the holidays and on into the new year. And what a year it will be!

Now I know I can make computing easier and more affordable for countless numbers of people. Never again will they have to squander money on expensive “Windows Ready” hardware. Now even old computers that would otherwise take up space in land fills can be re-purposed with Puppy Linux and run rings around even the most cutting edge Windows or Mac machines. I shit you not!

This is the future, come ride it with me! I’m pulling up on the stick as hard as I can and this site is going vertical. Cover your ears, the next sound you hear will be the world’s first Internet sonic boom!

1/11/10 Puppy Linux FAQ averages 800+ hits per day.

There is no doubt whatsoever, I can and will build the most useful Linux site on the Internet.

2/14/10 Puppy Linux FAQ averages 1000+ hits per day.

Sometime within the last 48 hours this site reached an average of 1007 hits per day. I consider this a major milestone. But the site is still in it’s infancy and I plan to top that figure by many orders of magnitude.

It is no accident that the Puppy Linux FAQ is enjoying such phenomenal popularity. Puppy Linux is the ideal OS and this site is the perfect introduction. Now is the time to tell your friends, family and co-workers that they no longer need be held prisoner by Windows. Tell them they can stop worrying about losing valuable data, stop wasting time scanning, removing malware and step up to a truly stable, virus free OS. Tell them this is the right time and the right OS to turn the page and never look back on Windows ever again. With your help, we can do this, I know it!