From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 690DF1381F3 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 06:53:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 82FBDE0C71; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 06:53:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A614E0C01 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 06:53:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.136] (helo=smtp5.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBfoW-0007yj-R0 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 08:53:12 +0200 Received: from 54698b76.cm-12-2c.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([84.105.139.118] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp5.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBfoW-0001Wb-JK for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 08:53:12 +0200 Received: from www.antarean.org (net.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.13]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7221E4C for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 08:52:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 83.80.30.114 (SquirrelMail authenticated user joost) by www.antarean.org with HTTP; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 08:52:43 +0200 Message-ID: <18881afa27b096d4a1bab899b99c14d3.squirrel@www.antarean.org> In-Reply-To: <5213059B.5010300@gmail.com> References: <5211226F.2000000@libertytrek.org> <201308182208.43780.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <521142A7.1020702@coolmail.se> <52119410.9050202@sporkbox.us> <5211BCB0.1060106@gmail.com> <52120BEE.1070000@coolmail.se> <5212199F.8070000@gmail.com> <3fa21fc6-3c62-43de-a002-2190be4aa597@email.android.com> <5212855A.4010909@gmail.com> <20130819233344.053a057c@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <62a525eb680779b7817b01f14fe648fc.squirrel@www.antarean.org> <5213059B.5010300@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 08:52:43 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.22 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Ziggo-spambar: --- X-Ziggo-spamscore: -3.7 X-Ziggo-spamreport: BAYES_00=-1.9,RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.982,RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-2.797 X-Ziggo-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Flag: No X-Archives-Salt: 2d09e93c-4092-4224-96cd-b137ff13e643 X-Archives-Hash: 034d52724ddc6f82f818682044b876ad 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 t= oo >> 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