-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/28/07 22:30, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 09:59:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 07/28/07 21:52, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: >> [snip] >>> Instant messaging on a home network? Try a low-tech holler: >>> "SOOOOEEE! TURN ON THE MODEM!" >> What ever happened to diald? >> > > Its an external Courier. I meant push the button to turn it on. It was > only a humourous comment; my wife would kill me if I addressed her as > SOOOOEE like I was calling in a cow;
It's even worse than that. SOOOOEE is how you call a pig. > my wife wouldn't know what a modem > looks like. I didn't either, until someone pointed one (a 300 baud acoustic coupler, in fact) out to me, and said, "That's a modem." > To get the modem to connect, I ssh to that box and type: > $pon courier > $bwm-ng > > and leave this VC 1 open. VC 2 is ssh'd to the box and either mutt or > $watch -n 20 "from -c" > > VC 3 is for net-related curses stuff (currently a wget session). > VC 4 is where I type startx when I need to. > > There was a time when I had Ctrl-Alt-UP set in inittab to open a new vt. > > Doug. > > - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGrC00S9HxQb37XmcRAtJOAJ405tCt43pj6aEVX/9Us7vMSnRe0QCg2IWF 6KCZcpFRFYL4lzmQ/riDFMk= =DPBt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
