console2 with cygwin bash shell and ssh behind it (and a lot of other UNIX commands too, like ls, and find and grep and awk and gpg…) has turned out to be a good solution. I discovered that cygwin sets the terminal as TERM=cygwin. That plays hell with vi on SUN servers. I found…
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console2 (KDE Konsole on Windows)
My ideal workstation to manage UNIX servers is kubuntu, running KDE. I recently did a day of off-site work. I used a laptop running exactly that environment. I fell back in love with the terminal program Konsole. There are two primary reasons I use KDE instead of Gnome in the desktop wars. Konsole, and…
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I have photographs my grandmother had taken at a photo studio in San Francisco in 1927. I have other photographs of her dancing with a straw hat through fields in Italy taken in the late 1940’s. I don’t have the negatives, but I do have (black and white) prints, that have stood up pretty…
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…sort of. My ISP fixed the DNS flaw. In doing so, they managed to stop caching ANY DNS results and slowed every action from within my local network to a crawl. This lasted for about nine days. Aaaarggggg. Tech support or any kind of customer service from Verizon is a nightmare. So are they all,…
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I fixed two bugs in this site design… The first was a failed comments function. The “Submit Comment” button failed to submit any actual comments. I hadn’t tested it. I was looking through google’s picture of the website, and found google complaining that /comments/feed (the rss url for comments) didn’t exist… OK, I can fix…
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