Posts tagged High Horse
UNIX Shell services, what’s the fuss?
Jan 21st
Wowzers, quite a little thread going on in a newsgroup, but really, what’s the big deal?
I think I know…
Not everyone uses the Internet for viewing web pages and downloading pr0nself-help videos and television shows. The Internet itself has become much easier for the layman to use, and with that, these historical services are no longer needed and support for them is harder and harder to come by.
In the past, most service providers (especially the ISPs that service residential users) used to offer some kind of UNIX shell for their paying clientele. Over time, the number of service providers has decreased, and of those that are left, the percentage of them that offer this type of environment has decreased by orders of magnitude. I’ll speculate on why further down this post.
UNIX shells are fascinating experiments in shared computing resources with a very long history.
Save a tree, don’t print this email!
Aug 8th
I have been seeing this more and more from the company contacts/marketers/sales persons that email me as part of their 20 line signature (with 3-5 graphics, including the words listed in the subject of this post…as a graphic with a leaf on the left or right).
First – I have only met a few people that print their emails regularly, and they are lawyers. No, this isn’t a slam on lawyers, it is as I said, the only people I have seen that print emails regularly are they. I don’t know anyone in the IT field (even myself in the service provider field) print emails to read.
Second – if you don’t want your content printed, why do you send 190 page PDF/Word/HTML documents to me for consideration? Do you really expect me to read your content on a computer screen? Do you realize that reading things on a screen is a lot more exhaustive on the eyes than reading on paper? Even with the Amazon Kindle (and others) electronic-paper, books are still the preferred medium for reading for entertainment and learning. I also find I read far faster on paper than on screen. I don’t know why. And I have less eye strain.
