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That world is not completely gone! I use VI to connect to amazon AWS servers over a satellite link. It is faster than 1200 baud but with horrible latency. VI
by pschlump 15y ago
That world is not completely gone! I use VI to connect to amazon AWS servers over a satellite link. It is faster than 1200 baud but with horrible latency. VI is the only editor that works.
- pschlump 15y agoRight now I am sitting on a Sailboat in the Bahamas.
- lhaussknecht 15y agoAnd reading HN with Lynx?
- jamesgeck0 15y agoHow many monitors do you have? (: http://secretgeek.net/jat_vc.asp http://secretgeek.net/jat_vc.asp
- nathanwdavis 15y agoYou really should get off HN and enjoy the sea.
- Marwy 15y agoMaybe he did? Maybe he has been enjoying the sea for the past 12 hours? Jesus, you really don't have better things to do than making assumptions and sharing them with people?
- apu 15y agoPlease be nice.
- pschlump 15y agoTomorrow I will swim with fish. Today it is stormy and we are safely tucked in a protected harbor. I program when the weather is bad and swim when it is good.
- msisk6 15y agoI tried working from an RV via satellite link years ago. Very frustrating -- life is too short to deal with the latency. Nowadays with git and puppet this might actually work -- make changes and edits locally and deploy over the low-bandwidth, high-latency link.
- StavrosK 15y agoI prefer having my local vi open the file through FTP. If you didn't know it could do that: http://www.marksanborn.net/software/modify-remote-files-with-vims-built-in-ftp-plugin/ http://www.marksanborn.net/software/modify-remote-files-with...