Re: tap tap...this list still live?

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Thomas Cannon wrote:

>> Being used to working in X, with a large virtual desktop capable of
>> displaying a few terms and a browser simultaneously, I find a small
>> desktop on windows pretty constraining and inefficient.
>
> Options:
>
> a) buy a laptop

:)  I brought 2 different ones with me the first day.  I left the spare 
one in the trunk.  When I was told "this is your workstation", I didn't 
even bother taking the one I'd brought in out of its bag.  I suppose I 
could press the issue, and I wouldn't be too uncomfortable sshing out to 
my workstation at work if it was from a PC I control/trust.

> b) bootable linux CD, perhaps. (I haven't tried one in years, but I assume
> they're usable by now)

Taking along a knoppix CD might be another possibility.

> Why unable/unwilling? It would seem the most natural thing in the world 
> to me. If you're worried about them seeing where the config files are 
> coming from that you're cut-n-pasting, set up aliases to ssh you into 
> those machines. Or just copy all your configs that you think might ever 
> be useful onto your home machine (this is what I do).

I'm not sshing to my systems from a PC (esp. a Windows one) that I have no 
knowledge or control over.  For all I know, it's virus infected, running a 
keylogger, logging ssh passwords, etc.

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