On Tue, August 20, 2013 07:58, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 20/08/2013 07:41, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On Tue, August 20, 2013 00:33, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 22:51:38 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> >>>> I'm also lucky in that when I managed to foist all the oracle with >>>> java >>>> installers off onto some other team of luckless suckers, I was left >>>> with >>>> just the best remote interface ever - ssh and bash. So I can afford to >>>> be smug :-) >>> >>> Those of us running ssh and zsh can easily out-smug you :) >>> >>> And those adding screen/tmux into the mix can become truly >>> unbearable... >> >> When working remotely on a console, I always use screen. Been bitten too >> often by dodgy links that it is a sane safety feature. > > Oh, are you also working in Africa since recently then?
Nope, but dodgy links exist in NL as well. And considering I still remember using dial-up modems (14k4 was my first one), screen was really usefull to keep my phonebills under control. -- Joost
