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 <
jmcphe@gmail.com> 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 <cryptworks@gmail.com> 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
>> <boneal@cornerstonehome.com> 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).
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>>
>> --
>> 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
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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
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