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Most of what I do, I do through console, aye.  I'm just more comfortable with it.  As far as productivity - ever compare someone truly competent with vi next to someone using a graphical editor?  The medium is often irrelevant - if you're used to something, you're more efficient with it than the alternatives.

Aldryic C said:

Most of what I do, I do through console, aye. I'm just more comfortable with it. As far as productivity - ever compare someone truly competent with vi next to someone using a graphical editor? The medium is often irrelevant - if you're used to something, you're more efficient with it than the alternatives.

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Good to know. I've never known someone to use console for Web browsing when having access to a standard web browser.


Each to their own

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That didn't quite have the effect you were hoping, did it?

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Ahah, at least it had the image contents in the name. 

Debian sucks, btw.

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I think somebody on LET just sold a summer host domain.

sundaymouse, if you want i can give you a push over nameceap for yoursommerhost.biz if someone is interested.

We should we even bother with buying templates, solusvm or whmcs - when we can just deploy pirated versions?

Hell, we could even chargeback on the dedicated server we purchased.

Yikes, each to their own but links2 and others like it are living hell for me.

Is JS support bad too? I guess you strike me as someone who browses without JS, though.

Correct, I prefer having JS disabled.  The few times it's necessary, I'll typically use Midori, so I can't speak for links playing nice with it.

I have a bunch of cheap dedicated servers, perfect for starting a summer host. Only a /29 is included but more upon justificstion for a reasonable price.


Quick summary I have a single P4 with 1GB RAM and single 80GB drive for $10. We have one P4 with 8GB RAM and 2x 160GB that you can use indendently or in software RAID 0 or 1. This one is $20 because it's hilarious a single core with 8GB memory we have a lot of random Core 2 Duo "grab bags" with 4GB RAM and 250GB HDD. those we have for $35. If you want with 500-750GB HDD it's extra $5. We have I7-4770K with 16GB DDR3 and 2TB HDD for $85. We will have some I5 too soon.


I want to charge $5 setup fee and $5 os reinstall fee to minimize people hopping back and forth from servers because OS reinstall is a pain. Currently all have clean install of CentOs 6 64 minimal can change it for $5. Waiting on ARIN IP allocation since we only have one available /29 you can order but wait for new IPs or renumber later...


Just PM me to get them thanks.

Aldryic C said:

Correct, I prefer having JS disabled.  The few times it's necessary, I'll typically use Midori, so I can't speak for links playing nice with it.

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I think it's always been messy. I can't imagine things like the DOM translate well to a cli environment anyway.

Oh well... I think a lot of people would scoff at my choice of browser too... Safari. Used to be a big firefox fan since it came out but now I'm on OS X it's just nicely integrated with a few nice UX things that make it more enjoyable to use. Each to their own. Wish we could have Camino (for OS X) back though.

How did you get started using the cli for internet, 'cos you were already knee-deep in terminals by then? I've been using the internet since my Dad's work laptop in the mid 90s but even then I had Netscape Navigator et al... still remember downloading games from CartoonNetwork.com with the sound of dial tones in the background...

edit: I realise now that you already answered this above, never mind... Still though, did you always use the cli for web browsing?

Got sick of Windows when 95 hit - after some searching, went with Debian and never looked back.  X's early days were always an... adventure... so I learned real quick to effectively use CLI for common tasks.  For quite awhile it was just too much of a pain to load a GUI where I could get the same results quicker with a few commands.  I still use graphical desktops - currently running a stripped down KDE (I love the level of customization), but I still use terminals for most of my work.

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These were posted quite awhile ago in an old 'Show your Desktop' thread, but they're a good example of what my workspace usually looks like when I'm not busy:

http://cboas.ru/img/desktop.png

http://cboas.ru/img/desktop2.png

Even though it's so customisable I still equate KDE with that horrible half gloss, half XP look of KDE2 that people seemed to love so much. I would personally use MATE, ElementaryOS's modded GNOME or XFCE probably myself on Linux. Luckily I don't mind the look of OS X and Yosemite looks even better so I don't worry about that too much.

Interesting though. Assuming you made the switch around 1995 I am just a little under a decade behind you so by the time I got here X was okay.

Given all that though I would have pegged you as a xmonad guy. Maybe hacking about in Haskell to customise it isn't your thing though. I guess you could be using it although I don't think many mix it with KDE. Possible though.

Well, I suppose to clarify, I only use a stripped KDE4 for my workstation (which is a beast of a build on part with high-end gaming rigs, and can easily handle the quirks).  My laptops and netbook, I run fluxbox.  It's not that often I need to use them anymore though, so I'd probably be a bit rusty if I had to do a new flux setup.

You seem like a pretty hardcore linux guy. i think to really strip down though you should take one of those 8-digit displays from a calculator and go full cli.

Sounds like a well thought out business plan...

Better than some of the companies that pop up.

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