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I first heard about tmux here at ML. I've gotten to where I like it better than screen most of the time.

I use it very little but have the odd task that I use it for. It's difficult to pop into a one liner so I try to use other tools when possible.

@tonyshowoff said:

@BBigford said:

@tonyshowoff said:

@BBigford said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Yeah, the GNU/Linux people seem to have died off long ago. It was one of those big trends once upon a time.

Richard Stallman died off? .... (joke)

I swear, in EVERY conversation I've heard him engage, he spins the conversation into the naming (GNU/Linux... NOT Linux). I think in the flick Revolution OS he talked about it no less than 60 times.

That movie also hinted at what a total psycho Eric S Raymond also is with his bizarre explosive behaviour. He's also pretty... pretty extremely sexist and actually not even really that technical, he's more like Stallman. What I do like is him complaining about Stallman, sometimes it's pretty funny what he writes and calls him out on.

I don't remember him being explosive in that movie. Got any examples to refresh my memory?

Well when the interviewer brings up that some people compare open source to communism, something that actually almost never happens in real life, his face turns bright red, he flips out and gives a very 1950s ice America view of life under Marxism. As someone from such a country, it was really strange. It did seem like he was trying to restrain himself.

Haha I forgot about some of those lines. Thanks for the refresh. Been a while since I've watched that flick.

If I may butt in here and show off I've talked about the text editor war on my blog (and here) before:

http://tonyshowoff.com/articles/vi-vs-emacs-nope-theyre-both-terrible-and-obsolete/ (link to MangoLassi conversation in post)

In all seriousness, because the post is a little over the top, if you want to be a sysadmin with Linux, Unix, BSD, old SunOS machines from the stone ages, etc you really need to know how to use vi. I know how to use vi, I despise it, but it's necessary from time to time. Often there are easier, less terrible editors available, but not always, and sometimes other editors aren't capable of completing the task for whatever reason (vipw for example).

My personal recommendations are nano or pico or FreeBSD's formerly popular "ee", I use these pretty much all the time, except, again, vi does come up.

@travisdh1 said in UNIX: The /etc/shadow File in Depth:

@stacksofplates said in UNIX: The /etc/shadow File in Depth:

@scottalanmiller said in UNIX: The /etc/shadow File in Depth:

@travisdh1 said in UNIX: The /etc/shadow File in Depth:

Man, I did just sneak in after /etc/shadow became standard in the 90s.

I was just before it.

I was way after.

Is this where I yell "Get off my lawn you young whippersnapper!"?

It's certainly where I do.

@thwr Thanks

Thanks, fixed.

@Mogrith Glad that someone is!! LOL. Thanks, it's fixed.

@BRRABill said in Accessing a Linux Server via SSH:

@scottalanmiller said

The default of what is to copy, paste and hit return?

PUTTY.

Be default when you right click something to copy, it copies it and pastes it and then hits return.

I guess perhaps just highlighting it copies it? I like the Windows method.

No it does not. I thought maybe you were thinking this but did not want to imply it. That's a misunderstanding of what is happening. It only does that IF your Windows environment and your actions are copying a carriage return into the clipboard (which Windows does by default.) This has nothing to do with PuTTY and is all about your Windows desktop AND it only does this if YOU make it happen, it does not do that for the rest of us. We don't copy the carriage return into the clipboard unless we want it. Windows makes this easy to control as a feature, but it is an invisible feature of the Windows environment so if you are not a Windows power user, you might not be aware that there is an interface to it that you are misusing.

PuTTY simply does what Windows tells it to do, PuTTY has no default behaviour like you are imagining.

@scottalanmiller You should also include cloud-init

https://cloudinit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

@nadnerB said:

Is it an entirely new set of commands or is it just prettier than BASH?

What commands are in BASH? BASH has hardly any commands at all. I'm sure they kept using for and the dot and such.

As long as it is "almost" boring, it is still exciting!