It seems to be the thing to do these days, so in celebration of my recent recovery, here's a screenshot of my desktop....
Enjoy...
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It seems to be the thing to do these days, so in celebration of my recent recovery, here's a screenshot of my desktop....
Enjoy...
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Comments (7)
Casey— very, very nice.
Here's my desktop these days. As you can see, I'm back to minimalistic geek mode.
Posted by Paul Burgess | October 15, 2004 8:12 AM
Posted on October 15, 2004 08:12
Yes, very geeky, yet very cool, Paul! :)
That one looks like a dailup window, yes?
Posted by Casey Tompkins | October 15, 2004 1:17 PM
Posted on October 15, 2004 13:17
Oh, that's a root-tail window. I activate it from the command line (entering, of course, my root password when prompted) as follows:
su -c 'tail -f -n100 /var/log/messages'
It scrolls to display information on dialup, or on anything else of interest that's happening on my system.
Posted by Paul Burgess | October 15, 2004 2:21 PM
Posted on October 15, 2004 14:21
I'm not as dumb as a thought; I understood most of that command; look at the last (tail) 100 entries in \var\log\messages, yes?
:)
Posted by Casey Tompkins | October 20, 2004 12:23 AM
Posted on October 20, 2004 00:23
Star Trek desktop? You have real guts to make such information public...
Posted by dowingba | October 20, 2004 1:11 AM
Posted on October 20, 2004 01:11
Casey:
Yes, and then keep scrolling up new lines as they're appended to the log file (that's the "-f" switch). I often run a gigantic root-tail window on workspace six— that way, I can pop over there when I want, and check out what's been happening on my system.
Posted by Paul Burgess | October 20, 2004 9:46 AM
Posted on October 20, 2004 09:46
Ah, but Chris, it's a very cool Star Trek desktop, isn't it? :)
Besides, it's an original series shot, and we all know that Kirk was cooler than Picard. Heh.
Paul: that's neat. And useful. Does the file grow very quickly? Or to put it anothe way: does the log track every little nit-picky detail, or just things like start a new thread, ab-ends (uh, oh! geek-talk alert!), and resources?
Posted by Casey Tompkins | October 20, 2004 3:32 PM
Posted on October 20, 2004 15:32