4 Dec
2008
4 Dec
'08
9:21 p.m.
For those Gmail users out there:
Click "Settings" / "Themes" and choose the _Terminal_ theme.
It gives you a (kind of) cool terminal looking theme within a web
browser when logged in to you Gmail.
I know: many purists out there use Pine, Elm, and the like... but
there are a few that need to use browsers when reading email for
whatever reason (myself included) on occasion.
I just enjoy seeing the green font/black background scenario on my
monitor whenever possible :-)
OK, back to Topic related issues.
4 Dec
4 Dec
11:47 p.m.
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 6:21 PM, eric <eric940 at gmail.com> wrote:
For those Gmail users out there:
Click "Settings" / "Themes" and choose the _Terminal_ theme.
It gives you a (kind of) cool terminal looking theme within a web
browser when logged in to you Gmail.
Hmm... interesting.
I know: many purists out there use Pine, Elm, and the
like... but
there are a few that need to use browsers when reading email for
whatever reason (myself included) on occasion.
I just enjoy seeing the green font/black background scenario on my
monitor whenever possible :-)
I'd say it looks more like a BBS to me than any sort of command-line
client, but then I put a lot of time in on real VT100s with white or
amber phosphor and substantially less time on terminals with green
phosphor.
It's cute, but I can see it getting annoying after not so much time.
I may have to pull this out to annoy _others_, though (I've lost track
of how many folks asked me why I was using "DOS" when I had multiple
term windows open on a Linux box).
-ethan
5 Dec
5 Dec
8:58 a.m.
On Dec 5, 2008, at 2:47 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I may have to pull this out to annoy _others_, though
(I've lost track
of how many folks asked me why I was using "DOS" when I had multiple
term windows open on a Linux box).
Good heavens.
I make it a point to avoid associating with such people. My life
is much happier that way.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
9:08 a.m.
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On Dec 5, 2008, at 2:47 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
These were not IT folks, they were folks in entirely non-IT roles at
the South Pole. One was an electrician who keeps the generators
working that supply power to our drilling rig for the installation
phase of our experiment - someone I _do_ want to associate with for
his particular expertise.
These people just happened to come by my desk to ask me something and
saw multiple shell windows open, and the only environment _they_ had
ever seen was DOS. They were representative of the general public,
not of someone who would be in my department at work.
-ethan
I may have to pull this out to annoy _others_, though (I've lost track
of how many folks asked me why I was using "DOS" when I had multiple
term windows open on a Linux box).
Good heavens.
I make it a point to avoid associating with such people. My life is much
happier that way. 
9:27 a.m.
i like it! don't know how long I'll use it for though
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Dave McGuire
<mcguire at neurotica.com>
wrote:
On Dec 5, 2008, at 2:47 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
much
I may have to pull this out to annoy _others_, though (I've lost track
of how many folks asked me why I was using "DOS" when I had multiple
term windows open on a Linux box).
Good heavens.
I make it a point to avoid associating with such people. My life is happier that way.
These were not IT folks, they were folks in entirely non-IT roles at
the South Pole. One was an electrician who keeps the generators
working that supply power to our drilling rig for the installation
phase of our experiment - someone I _do_ want to associate with for
his particular expertise.
These people just happened to come by my desk to ask me something and
saw multiple shell windows open, and the only environment _they_ had
ever seen was DOS. They were representative of the general public,
not of someone who would be in my department at work.
-ethan
4:37 p.m.
I'd say it looks more like a BBS to me than any
sort of command-line
client, but then I put a lot of time in on real VT100s with white or
amber phosphor and substantially less time on terminals with green
phosphor.
It's cute, but I can see it getting annoying after not so much time.
Yeah, on both points -- now that I've used it for a couple days. A bit
of a novelty at first, but then ...
However, back around the late 70s/early 80s, I recall hooking up some
no name terminals with green screens. But I do see the BBS flavor in
it too.
I may have to pull this out to annoy _others_, though
(I've lost track
of how many folks asked me why I was using "DOS" when I had multiple
term windows open on a Linux box).
Heh.
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