Weird name for a blog huh, well weird at least to me, and maybe to other people as well. It’s basically a combination of the first three letters of my first name, Fredrik and the last three letters of my surname, Erasmus, which when combined gives you Fremus. The idea came as a suggestion from a friend, and to be totally honest, I did not like it too much at first, but I even mentioned it to my mom and she liked it too. Fremus was thus born. Fremus also refers to a lions roar or lions that roar…
I want to make an acknowledgment quickly – I am a lazy Microsoft Windows User, who does not like to struggle much with PC problems, and who generally steers clear of anything that looks too hectically challenging. I like things to be one-click solutions ALL THE TIME. Guess thats a bit dreamy, but thats how I would like things to be. Unfortunately they are not, which is good, because it forces me to actually do some work to make something work. Let me give you an example, a pretty ftp client vs a command line utility such as PSFTP. I have generally, 99% of the time, been using FTP clients such as Core FTP Lite for uploading web content, until today that is. Today I used a program called PuTTy, which allows you to connect to a web server through a shell, which then allows you to use a command line interface to manage files. I found this particularly useful, because I uploaded some content earlier using a FTP client and I placed some files in a wrong folder and wanted to change it and ended up creating a folder with a different name (but I actually wanted to use the original folder name). I couldn’t delete the folder because there was some hidden content in it which then prompted me to do some searching on shells, which lead me to PuTTY. Using PuTTY I could access and delete those hidden files. The point is that FTP clients can sometimes be buggy, and crash for some reason, whereas using a shell there is just no GUI, which means less bugs. Thats my two cents anyway..
