Imagine getting up one fine morning and forgetting how to switch the alarumm clock off. And then realising you don't really know what those flashing red digits on the clock mean. Imagine that your roomie switches on the radio and you don't understand what the announcer is saying. In a moment, you realise that your roomie is speaking to you, but all you hear is just gibberish. Somehow you get through the morning, and by a succession of benevolent miracles you make it to the office. At which point, of course, you are totally stumped, flabbergasted and at a complete loss.
Well, thank heavens that does not happen too often. But it did to my computer a while back. I am one of those people for whom the 'journey has more meaning than the destination'. To make the point clearer, I am not a linux sys-admin. I am, but a lowly user. There are three 'dot' files native to any user. The .login and the .profile files compile when you log in. The .cshrc compiles every time a terminal is opened. Mine didn't. It is pretty much like complete insanity. Turns out that it was just a minor 'script error', whatever that means! But ours not to reason why, ours but to compile and cry.
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