On 8/3/07, Ben <bench@silentmedia.com> wrote:
> > I'm curious: which aspect of hardware administration
> > on a Linux box would require X (to be running)? If I *really*
> It's not that it can't be done, it's that having a window environment can
> make things easier. (I find 24x80 pretty cramped, and I like large
> scrollback buffers.)
So I make my xterm on my workstation be 134x80, with a
line buffer of 8000 and then ssh into the server :}
> But like most computer efficiency questions, this whole thread tangent
> boils down to how much overhead you want your computer to dedicate to
> making your life easier at the expense of whatever else it was supposed to
> be doing.
True that. Same for how many potential vulnerabilities
I'm willing to introduce for the sake of convenience. Not
that I'd find it convenient to drive the 40Km to the data-
centre to get physical access to the servers, mind you.
Cheers,
Andrej
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