Great tools usually are the ones that let users do goofy things without restraint Its when people start needing the tool to nerf itself I get grumpy On 5/19/09, James Mcphee wrote: > I have an admin that loves to open bunches of screen sessions and leave them > open forever. This eventually kills the box, obviously. Screen is a great > tool that does not in any way prevent people from doing goofy things. > > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Stephen wrote: > >> I used to annoy my admins in school because i was the monster of >> screen abuse on that server. >> >> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Bryan O'Neal >> wrote: >> > I'll be honest I have been reading this and going "oh yha, that is a >> > good >> > one" but I have never heard of screen until now >> > http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/screen/ >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> > [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of >> Matrix >> > Mole >> > Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 10:06 AM >> > To: Main PLUG discussion list >> > Subject: Re: List of Command Line Tools >> > >> > I am surprised, with all these great command line tools that have been >> > mentioned no one has yet to mention screen, an almost vital component in >> my >> > toolbox for command line usage. >> > >> > Other programs I use that I don't believe I've seen mentioned: >> > >> > rtorrent - Torrents >> > mcabber - Jabber tool (connected to gchat) uudeview - used to decode >> binary >> > files from newgroups >> > >> > I've tried both tin and slrn for newsgroup reading, both work great for >> > text, but for some reason seem to fail at binary newgroup usage in my >> > opinion (been over a year since I used newsgroups though so couldn't say >> off >> > the top of my head why now). I've found nget works great for pure >> binaries >> > though. >> > >> > I've been trying to find a really good imap based command line email >> client >> > that blends almost perfectly with gmail and it's inability to accurately >> > implement imap according to the RFCs (basically something that does >> similar >> > to thunderbird but via command line instead). I've tried mutt, but it >> > generated extra emails whenever I send for some reason (they appear in >> > my >> > inbox as replies of my email for some reason, causing unnecessary >> clutter). >> > --------------------------------------------------- >> > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------- >> > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >> >> Stephen >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > James McPhee > jmcphe@gmail.com > -- Sent from my mobile device A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss