Chasing Coffee

screen

I'd just like to take a moment to thank the people who wrote screen. It makes my top 10 list[0] of utility programs[1] I absolutely cannot live without, and in spite of it not making the top 5 list, it's ability to resume sessions does more to keep my blood pressure low than anything else on the top 10 list aside from source control software.

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[0] For the record, my Top 10 list of utilities I can't live without (off the cuff and subject to revision at my whim):

1. emacs
2. vim
3. gcc
4. ProDG debugger
5. mutt
6. ssh
7. screen
   
8. source control software (no, I'm not going to pick one particular one, I think I've opened myself to quite enough flames by placing both vim and emacs in the same list, thank you very much)
9. mozilla firebird
10. outlook[2]
    

[1] emacs could technically be classed as an "operating system", but let's not go there.

[2] As much as I'd like to live without Outlook and consider it bad mix between a cruel joke and a pox upon the whole of humanity, my company's IT department is very Microsoft centric, so I am forced to use Outlook to communicate with my team. Therefore, despite the persistent feeling of dirtiness I get from using that poorly written, bloated, security hole from hell, I must place it in the list of utilities I cannot live without.

Posted by matt at November 19, 2003 11:24 AM