Busy Busy
I’m into my first cycle of exams right now so blogging will be light. Ah, the joys of being back in school…
I don’t have much for today, but I must say that GNU Screen is incredibly handy for managing a headless server. I’ve been playing around with Unix-ish systems for over 10 years but I never bothered to use Screen before; I would always just fire up another instance of xterm and go about my business. Of course, then I’d end up with seven different terminal windows scattered all over the place.
That’s the thing about Unix; there’s a million different ways to do everything and one of them is invariably more efficient than what you’re used to doing. I’m always learning more, but fortunately I haven’t yet reached the point where I need to expand my goatee into a Unix beard.
Screen is civilization.
Just wait until you figure out viewports for vim…
Comment by existingthing — September 26, 2007 @ 6:42 pm
my coworkers have figured out screen for disconnecting and reconnecting sessions, but i’m constantly teaching one or another of them some of that thing’s other features. cutting and pasting in non-GUI environments, logging, shared sessions, multiple sessions… being one of those crotchety old unix geeks definitely has its advantages.
Comment by Nomen Nescio — October 2, 2007 @ 2:50 pm