Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: blmblm@myrealbox.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Ubuntu Date: 20 Oct 2011 14:15:29 GMT Organization: None Lines: 46 Message-ID: <9gaoo0FbrlU2@mid.individual.net> References: <9g81i2Fj6eU4@mid.individual.net> X-Trace: individual.net HHQif5zGQo9YtLXRupZ8GQLu6EbJmdJOa1s2mOiWlt8EJIAFc+ X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:cdUCgNWOLgEmzFJpXf9QpVxYSaM= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:9027 In article , Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:27:30 +0000, blmblm@myrealbox.com wrote: > > > In article , > > Martin Gregorie wrote: > >> On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:43:56 +0000, blmblm@myrealbox.com wrote: > >> > >> > There is that (the performance issue). My experience has been that > >> > over a fast local network, it's good enough for most applications, > >> > though I seem to remember that there are exceptions (though not what > >> > they are). Over a not-so-fast network, yeah, it can be too slow to be > >> > usable. > >> > > >> Same here - which is what I was speaking about. > >> > >> > Strongly agreed about the value of "screen" -- I've even been known > >> > to use it locally, for its cut-and-paste features. > >> > > >> I've never gotten around to using screen, though I do normally use the > >> microEmaxs editor everywhere - its multi-screen abilities combined with > >> shelling out over the top of it do almost everything I need. > > > > For me the other benefit of "screen" is the one previously mentioned by > > the person who first mentioned this tool -- it sets up something that > > persists even if the network connection is broken, deliberately or not. > > For me examples of both kinds of breakage do arise -- it's useful to be > > able to set something up under "screen" at work, detach the screen > > session, and reattach it later from home, or vice version, For the record -- s/vice version/vice versa/ (pointed out via e-mail by an alert fellow poster) *No* idea how that one happened! > > and it's also useful to be able to set up something that will persist > > even if the ssh session under which it was started times out. [ snip ] -- B. L. Massingill ObDisclaimer: I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor.