[clue-tech] The Really Fast Way

[Nate Duehr]

On Nov 9, 2007, at 8:21 AM, Michael J. Hammel wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 00:33 -0700, Nate Duehr wrote:
>> Or if you do, they get typed into a script file so you can run them
>> again and again to your heart's content with a much shorter  
>> name.  :-)
>> Who needs a GUI when you have a shell?  :-)
>
> Interesting question:  why would you use a GUI then?

LOL... is that a serious question?  The answer for me would be...  
"Better and much smaller fonts".  That's about it.

I think I'm a good candidate to try out the "ratpoison" window-manager  
someday if I ever fire up a Linux machine that has X on it, ever  
again.  :-)

[snipped Michael's really nice description of how he uses the shell to  
set up what he's working on, and how he has a lot of scripts/etc. to  
do it.]

Similar thoughts here Michael... the only real difficulty I have is  
that I'm a bit too lax about keeping all the various little script  
snippets centralized.  I always "mean to" move them back to either my  
laptop or a certain desktop machine, but they end up scattered...

Server stuff ends up on the server where it usually gets used (and  
copied to others via scp in a rush when I want to run the same script  
elsewhere... why I don't just pipe them through SSH, I don't know...  
LOL) and goof-off/personal stuff (like my perl script to generate  
mailing labels from my RoverLog log files after my June Ham Radio  
Rover insanity) end up living on the laptop...

And then all get backed up, sooner or later... to something...

(Argh, this is making me think my backup strategy and organizational  
skills are crap... well, for personal stuff I suppose they are.  Ha.   
Work stuff is a different story.  I'm awash in far too many files on  
personal disks, that's for sure...)

Not organized enough... must write a script to copy things back to the  
central repository someday!  (GRIN)... Problem is, I will then over- 
engineer the repository and make it a full blown version control  
system (I keep meaning to try new things -- translation:  Not CVS.).

At work, it's easier... keep stuff on the work-provided desktop  
machine (which is actually a laptop, but who's counting anymore?) and  
back it up to a USB drive regularly or to a corporate and/or lab  
fileserver... depending on how important it is and whether it needs to  
survive nuclear holocaust or if it's just a script I can re-hack in 20  
minutes.   :-)

(That's a joke about nuclear holocaust, but I'm sure there are at  
least a FEW sysadmins out there who actually have such real  
thoughts... yikes.)

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Nate Duehr
nate at natetech.com