On 8/3/07, Ben <bench@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm curious: which aspect of hardware administration > > on a Linux box would require X (to be running)? If I *really* > It's not that it can't be done, it's that having a window environment can > make things easier. (I find 24x80 pretty cramped, and I like large > scrollback buffers.) So I make my xterm on my workstation be 134x80, with a line buffer of 8000 and then ssh into the server :} > But like most computer efficiency questions, this whole thread tangent > boils down to how much overhead you want your computer to dedicate to > making your life easier at the expense of whatever else it was supposed to > be doing. True that. Same for how many potential vulnerabilities I'm willing to introduce for the sake of convenience. Not that I'd find it convenient to drive the 40Km to the data- centre to get physical access to the servers, mind you. Cheers, Andrej -- Please don't top post, and don't use HTML e-Mail :} Make your quotes concise. http://www.american.edu/econ/notes/htmlmail.htm ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
