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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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