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Originally Posted by rquiggle
This is probably a little weird, but lately I have been running Knoppix on Run Level 2.......text mode. It's really been fun learning codes and surfing the web with eLinks. Has anyone else experimented with this? I'm in text mode now, and it is so addictively old school I might not go back, lol.
Well I routinely log into remote machines through ssh. For example our firewall at work does not allow IRC thorugh so I log into my box at home and run irssi from there. On those occasions when I'm forced to use Xchat I'm almost lost with the interface and it just takes longer to get things done. One bad habit I have tho when logged into multiple machines is not paying attention to which terminal I type 'reboot' in. Ooops! I rebooted the server again! Sorry....
Hmmmm I should write a script that prompts me 'Are you sure you want to reboot the server you idiot?'
Re: TEXT MODE..............
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Originally Posted by mzilikazi
Hmmmm I should write a script that prompts me 'Are you sure you want to reboot the server you idiot?'
I try never to have several root sessions to different hosts at the same time. And the host name should always be included in your shell prompt, it helps one stay alert.
Re: TEXT MODE..............
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Originally Posted by baldyeti
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Originally Posted by mzilikazi
Hmmmm I should write a script that prompts me 'Are you sure you want to reboot the server you idiot?'
I try never to have several root sessions to different hosts at the same time. And the host name should always be included in your shell prompt, it helps one stay alert.
Well of course the hostname is there but it doesn't matter. When things get busy sometimes you just make mistakes!
Re: TEXT MODE..............
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Originally Posted by mzilikazi
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Originally Posted by baldyeti
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Originally Posted by mzilikazi
Hmmmm I should write a script that prompts me 'Are you sure you want to reboot the server you idiot?'
I try never to have several root sessions to different hosts at the same time. And the host name should always be included in your shell prompt, it helps one stay alert.
Well of course the hostname is there but it doesn't matter. When things get busy sometimes you just make mistakes!
I had the reverse problem...
I'd be doing four or five things on my terminal, when a Sys Admin states they need "this" system brought in for upgrading... So, I'd link to the system, send out the customary: "this system needs to go in for service, please log out." - keep checking back on it, to see when no one is using it, and then send the shutdown to it. Only to find, I've mistakenly been in my own systems window at the time... I'd wait a few minutes, usually walking down the cublicles on the way, to see if anyone needs any help, only to find, when I get to the system I was shutting down, that it was still up, the messages I sent, still on a console screen. So, I'd down the system locally, wait for it to be completely down, unplug it all, then transport. When I get back to my own system, thats when I'd find, my system was the one completely shut down...
Nice thing was, at least I wasn't doing this to anyone else's system, like the President, Vice, etc... I could have gotten a bad name within the company, if I had, I might have been known as the random shutdown artist, picking any system at random, and shutting it down... I did make a collosal boo-boo once. I thought that the name of a "co-worker's" computer was something, logged into it remotely, and gave them "roaches", only to find it was the President of the company - found this out, when he called me, saying: "I don't know what I did, but, can you help me? I've got these 'bugs' running around on my screen." -=- I did some fancy dancing to get around the idea that "I" had done it to them...
Re: TEXT MODE..............
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Originally Posted by rquiggle
This is probably a little weird, but lately I have been running Knoppix on Run Level 2.......text mode. It's really been fun learning codes and surfing the web with eLinks. Has anyone else experimented with this? I'm in text mode now, and it is so addictively old school I might not go back, lol.
You must also check out mc if you have not already. It does so many things and is indispensible for file browsing, ftp and ssh and a host of other things. The man page for mc is a complete novel!