I was wondering what he was doing with the source code to Windows Vista...<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tom Pohl</b> <<a href="mailto:tom@tcpconsulting.com">tom@tcpconsulting.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Am I the only person to wonder what in the world would take 4 days to<br>
compile?!? :)<br><br>-Tom<br><br><br>On Aug 28, 2007, at 5:36 PM, Aaron Porter wrote:<br><br>> On 8/27/07, Matthew Nuzum <<a href="mailto:newz@bearfruit.org">newz@bearfruit.org</a>> wrote:<br>>> When I was a Windows user, I used putty, and I still miss it
<br>>> somewhat.<br>>> One thing I did was assign a background color to the terminal window<br>>> to distinguish different types of systems... i.e. mailservers,<br>>> databases, etc. I usually prefer a black background but you can
<br>>> adjust<br>>> the color slightly towards magenta or blue and it looks black until<br>>> you compare it to another terminal that is black or one of the other<br>>> colors.<br>><br>> I had a job doing software configuration management, one of my main
<br>> tasks was nursing the 4 day build process. 4 days of compiling, if<br>> everything went well. Not so fun. One of my favorite tricks was to set<br>> my DISPLAY to my home system, open a large xterm for the build process
<br>> and use xtermcontrol to change the background color of the xterm based<br>> on build status. In my tiny apartment, I could disable my screen saver<br>> and "keep an eye" on the build without leaving the couch/kitchen/deck
<br>> and without having to carry a pager. Looks like it's even packaged for<br>> debian these days.<br>><br>> A little case statement in your login scripts and you could have the<br>> same xterm change color every time you log into a new system.
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