Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!usenet.ukfsn.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Ubuntu Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:18:07 +0000 (UTC) Organization: UK Free Software Network Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <9g5i1tFnnbU3@mid.individual.net> <24049304.27.1318953582217.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prng5> <9g5n98F5upU1@mid.individual.net> <9g5s6sFh1jU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.45.235.129 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: localhost.localdomain 1318983487 13228 84.45.235.129 (19 Oct 2011 00:18:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@localhost.localdomain NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:18:07 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.135 (Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea; GIT 30dc37b master) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:8966 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. Everything else is easily met with a few more ssh sessions in Gnome terminal windows, since its not a lot harder to cut 'n paste between those than it is within a multi-windowed terminal application. > Nice to know that there are at least a few other shell fans out there? > Most of my programming activity is command-line oriented regardless of whether I'm driving a local or remote system, which I do with ssh and X11 forwarding: use of the latter boils down to developing Swing programs with much lower use of it to run remote copies of GIMP, LibreOffice progs, and firing up Opera remotely if I want to proof read Javadocs. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |