I am trying to cultivate an attitude of logical thinking and pragmatism, in the same way the main character in zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance fixes his bike by concentrating on quality, a job done properly. In the way he came across a washer which caused numerous problems which seemed unrelated, my car had a loose drive shaft bolt which caused the following errors, adaptive suspension unavailable, abs error, traction control error, stability service required.
Due to poor workmanship from a main dealer, there is the below image.
The bolt on the right showing shiny threads where it has been cross threaded subsequently loosed due to vibration. I am not very mechanically inclined however applying a thought process of what I can see, what makes sense and applying the solution with patience worked well.
Surprisingly I've enjoyed learning a lot about BASH and some of the single use tools that just make things easy.
Editing multiple files at once, using vim, understanding what other people meant when they said ssh, making a patch file and installing packages to make it easy. Nice to also go over a lot of regex, on my list to learn but didn't really get until now.
I have also done some minor scripting which was handy for downloading multiple files from usenet to check each file for integrity. Looked something like
for i in $(ls *1.par2); do par2 r $i; done;
Still a long way to scripting, compile, and remote admin. I am now a fan of no starch press books.
On top of all of that I read Zen and art of motorcycle maintenance, which discusses in depth the idea of quality. To me the idea of quality came across as that happens when someone cares about what they are doing. Interesting ideas of being stuck the bolt which cannot be undone even with destruction as an option, that the bolt doesn't care it is what it is, that does not mean the problem is insurmountable. I have been there many times.
