I think that while Microsoft would certainly like to release the new Xbox already, they are afraid of doing so. Not because of Sony, but because of Nintendo.
The last generation surprised everyone on the console front. Hardcore gamers kept playing with PS3 and Xbox360, but Wii ultimately won the round by attracting general population into gaming. Suddenly you had millions of new people introduced into gaming, especially girls. While Microsoft has always produced quality products and by far they are the best on the industry on lots of products, they don't know how to capture that market. They want it badly, but they want to look how Nintendo succeeds with their Wii successor. By delaying the release they can learn from Nintendo's mistakes and hit them hard next year and become the #1 of next generation consoles.
It does matter though. Didn't use screen? Lost a connection? Your processes are terminated. Linux sucks in that regard, you need to know about the hangup "feature" that immediately kills your processes when the terminal dies.
Yes, but this isn't even explained in the article!
You do know that you can use real programming language like C++ for that, right? This way you can automate the process and don't need to read and write every command by hand, and you have the added benefit of having access to variables and higher level programming.
I used to use telnet for irc, but it got really tiresome to answer to pings.
The best thing is that there isn't really even "16 tricks". Most of them are about the same things, like the first randomart images. And then, we are taught how to use screen, like it somehow matters that it is over remote connection!
Seriously, anyone who uses SSH knows about things like proxying your connection via the connection and X11 forwarding. This is nothing new. This is just InfoWorld getting backlinks and traffic from Slashdot once again. Hell, I knew about these things when I was 16 and so did every other guy I knew who ever had used SSH.
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I think that while Microsoft would certainly like to release the new Xbox already, they are afraid of doing so. Not because of Sony, but because of Nintendo.
The last generation surprised everyone on the console front. Hardcore gamers kept playing with PS3 and Xbox360, but Wii ultimately won the round by attracting general population into gaming. Suddenly you had millions of new people introduced into gaming, especially girls. While Microsoft has always produced quality products and by far they are the best on the industry on lots of products, they don't know how to capture that market. They want it badly, but they want to look how Nintendo succeeds with their Wii successor. By delaying the release they can learn from Nintendo's mistakes and hit them hard next year and become the #1 of next generation consoles.
It does matter though. Didn't use screen? Lost a connection? Your processes are terminated. Linux sucks in that regard, you need to know about the hangup "feature" that immediately kills your processes when the terminal dies.
Yes, but this isn't even explained in the article!
You do know that you can use real programming language like C++ for that, right? This way you can automate the process and don't need to read and write every command by hand, and you have the added benefit of having access to variables and higher level programming.
I used to use telnet for irc, but it got really tiresome to answer to pings.
The best thing is that there isn't really even "16 tricks". Most of them are about the same things, like the first randomart images. And then, we are taught how to use screen, like it somehow matters that it is over remote connection!
Seriously, anyone who uses SSH knows about things like proxying your connection via the connection and X11 forwarding. This is nothing new. This is just InfoWorld getting backlinks and traffic from Slashdot once again. Hell, I knew about these things when I was 16 and so did every other guy I knew who ever had used SSH.