Comments on: Useless Linux “Tips”

By: Volatile

Volatile — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:44:20 +0000

Right now, I’m bothered enough by not knowing how to blog via the terminal that I’m writing a file system interface to do it…

By: Volatile

Volatile — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:42:34 +0000

Well, NOT starting X and all the rest of it takes a lot less time, I promise!
If I could surf with pictures in a good way terminalwize, I propably would.
I guess I more like to write than do this pointy-klicky-thingie… The main reason for having X for me is watching pretty pictures and movies. Handling text stuff using a text media seems pretty logical to me, somehow.

By: Edd Turtle

Edd Turtle — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:43:11 +0000

because X doesn’t take that long to start…

Would you turn your computer on just for 1 tweet? (If so then I suppose it could be useful)

By: Volatile

Volatile — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:39:34 +0000

ehm. Why bother starting up X to twitter if I can do it from my terminal?

By: Edd Turtle

Edd Turtle — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:01:20 +0000

…Yes it is…

By: Lulz

Lulz — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:56:13 +0000

I thought A New Hope was episode IV?

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:09:14 +0000

>list of six gnome-terminal commands

Damn! I guess these are gnome only. I’ll have to rethink my desktop choice. It would be my luck that these would also only work on Ubuntu. Since that is the only real Linux distribution.

By: Edd Turtle

Edd Turtle — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:45:40 +0000

@Don – Yes true you could have accessed no.1 with any telnet client, it just seemed a bigger thing with linux

@Andrew – Yes, I think I was wrong about the yes command, sorry! As seen by the many other comments it does have it’s uses

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:29:32 +0000

`yes` can also be used with a parameter to repeat that phrase repeatedly. For example, `yes hi` will print the word hi over and over again instead of the letter y. When piped to another program, `yes` will print until it is killed, which can actually be quite useful.

By: Don

Don — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:53:44 +0000

The first “Tip” is not a Linux tip it is a telnet tip.
You can connect to that telnet server on any OS that has a telnet client.