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eskarina
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Too much Grex?
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Jun 30 22:34 UTC 2003 |
I had an experience today that gave me an idea for an item. :) I was being
bussed around Chicago, and I saw a sign that said "IHB Construction". My knee
jerk, honest reaction was "What's happy about construction?" Oh shoot...
that's a company, not the happy item!
And I realized that I've probably been on grex too much/too long. :)
So, what was your most recent experience that made you feel like you'd been
on grex too much/too long?
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rcurl
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response 1 of 45:
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Jun 30 23:48 UTC 2003 |
I logged on for the third time today....
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cross
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response 2 of 45:
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Jul 1 05:46 UTC 2003 |
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scott
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response 3 of 45:
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Jul 1 07:44 UTC 2003 |
I'm on vacation in Europe. I should be out looking at things instead of
sitting in my brother's home office, reading Grex...
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michaela
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response 4 of 45:
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Jul 1 19:35 UTC 2003 |
Every once in a while, I catch myself trying to use ctrl-w in an instant
message program.
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dcat
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response 5 of 45:
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Jul 1 19:52 UTC 2003 |
This is probably more of a sign of too much use of various computers in
general: i get my keymaps confused.
I ^U to clear a line in Emacs, and in PINE. (In the former this is not a
problem, but in PINE this does exactly the opposite.) I <ESC> before saving
in Emacs, and ^X^S in vi. (Each comes from the other.) There's actually a
whole series of Emacsisms I keep trying to use in PINE, and a few of them
actually work (^A/^E to beginning/end of line, for two), which only makes it
worse.
In the shell, I keep prefacing commands with !, which produces some. . .
interesting results.
Just another (61) reason(s) I need to get a life that's more than Unix. . .
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mdw
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response 6 of 45:
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Jul 1 21:36 UTC 2003 |
I find it simplest to use one text editor for everything.
Well, 2 actually, but only one supports visual mode.
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dcat
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response 7 of 45:
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Jul 1 21:42 UTC 2003 |
I use Emacs in general, vi when i need something quick w/out waiting for emacs
to start up, pico for mail (i.e., the PINE composer), whatever the editor
picospan has for picospan, and ed very occasionally.
like i said, just another reason i need to get a life outside unix. . .
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slestak
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response 8 of 45:
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Jul 2 01:25 UTC 2003 |
Hey cross, how is plan 9? Also, I've given life without *nix a shot. It's not
so hot. "Too much" may even increase my productivity someday.
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ea
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response 9 of 45:
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Jul 2 01:48 UTC 2003 |
I've tried using my grex password on other systems.
Also, more of a general unix-ism, but I keep finding that "ls" doesn't
work in most versions of MS-DOS.
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cross
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response 10 of 45:
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Jul 2 01:48 UTC 2003 |
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dcat
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response 11 of 45:
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Jul 2 03:29 UTC 2003 |
I keep finding that attempting to use the control key on the Suns at the UGLi
only turns on the CapsLock. After using those machines for a few hours, I
quite quickly discover the reverse on the next machine i use. . . .
(Suns' CapsLock and Control keys are reversed from their positions on the
Windows-compatible and Macintosh keyboards, although I gather the Sun style
is older (and thus its the PC & Mac kbs which are reversed).)
resp:9 - I can't remember the last time I used a DOS shell ;) but
occasionally i come across default shell rc files -- mostly in commercial Linux
distroes-- wherein 'dir' and 'vdir' are aliased to ls w/ appropriate options. .
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resp:10 - what *is* Plan 9, exactly? 'it's not Unix' is about all I've
heard about it that I can remember. . . .
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mdw
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response 12 of 45:
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Jul 2 04:36 UTC 2003 |
It's a sort of distributed computing environment that attempts to have a
very light-weight implementation of all its parts, by reversing some
common computing paradigms.
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pvn
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response 13 of 45:
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Jul 2 06:02 UTC 2003 |
How well distributed is it on a laptop?
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cross
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response 14 of 45:
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Jul 2 18:14 UTC 2003 |
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gregb
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response 15 of 45:
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Jul 2 18:33 UTC 2003 |
Lately, I'll sit in front of my 'puter, not knowing what I want to do,
so I'll Grex.
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gull
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response 16 of 45:
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Jul 2 18:41 UTC 2003 |
Re #9: If you're running Win95 or later, install one of the UNIX tools
for Win32 packages. (I don't mean Cygwin; there are some native ones.)
Not only will you get 'ls', but having functioning 'ps' and 'kill'
commands is sometimes handy. Having things like a Win32-native 'find'
command also lets you write more sophisticated batch files than you'd be
able to normally.
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dcat
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response 17 of 45:
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Jul 2 19:23 UTC 2003 |
resp:14 - wow. i'll have to check that out sometime. . .
(unfortunately, i won't have a network at least till i get back to school
in August. But sometime after then. . .)
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other
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response 18 of 45:
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Jul 2 19:40 UTC 2003 |
re#14: Wow. That was quite a pitch. It sounds like a significant
advance in computer system design and function. What your description
really elicits from me in response, though, is the question, "So what are
the biggest problems, flaws, faults, etcetera with Plan 9?" Would you
mind addressing that as well?
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orinoco
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response 19 of 45:
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Jul 2 19:49 UTC 2003 |
re #11: I find myself making the same mistake with the control and option keys
on my Macintosh keyboard, since I use the same finger for both. Using control
instead of option is usually pretty innocuous. Using option instead of
control does some strange, strange things.
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cross
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response 20 of 45:
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Jul 2 21:48 UTC 2003 |
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dcat
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response 21 of 45:
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Jul 3 14:55 UTC 2003 |
re: too much computering:
http://images.ucomics.com/comics/nq/2003/nq030702.gif
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gregb
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response 22 of 45:
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Jul 3 15:18 UTC 2003 |
Phew! I wore myself out reading all that. B-)
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jaklumen
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response 23 of 45:
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Jul 5 10:19 UTC 2003 |
*That* was funny as hell, especially in regards to the Danae
character. I didn't think she'd be that isolationist, but hey, I
suppose you can cut yourself off in cybersp...
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slestak
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response 24 of 45:
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Jul 6 22:48 UTC 2003 |
Thanks for the tutorial cross !! A few months back I took a look at Bell Labs
site for Plan 9, began reading through the install notes, but became side
tracked with Gentoo Linux. I like the 0% analogy. I'll dig into Plan 9 this
week and take it on as a new project. Cheers!!
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