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Side note: For "sensitive" systems like servers, I usually configure my terminal to use "ugly" color combinations, like black-on-lime, or such. It's bad on the eyes, but you won't mistake your laptop for your server! :-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Duane Morin" <dmorin at lear.morinfamily.com> To: <discuss at blu.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 6:58 PM Subject: D'oh! moments > When I take the laptop in to the office I execute an "ifdown eth0" > before going home so that I dont accidentally try to fire up some > net-sensitive app and have to wait for a timeout. > > Today I did that from a terminal window and found myself saying > "Why is it taking so long?" before realizing that i had accidentally > done it in a window where I was ssh'd in to the server. That smarts. > > What do people do in a situation like that? The machine in my > basement has no head, and the only monitor in the house is my > flatscreen up in the office. So doing stuff local on the server > means having to take apart my Windows machine and lug the monitor > downstairs, possibly just to issue a 3 second command. > > Duane > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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