She's hooked, she's hooked, her brain is cooked!

[mdlbear]

chaoswolf seems quite enthusiastic about getting her very own domain (chaoswolf.org) for her birthday. More than I expected, in fact -- I may finally have gotten her hooked.

Since she insists on using Windows and ssh-ing over to the server, and since she already prefers pine for email, she's been learning to use emacs like a real hacker -- in console mode. This will stand her in good stead: you can't always count on a remote server having X. (Yeah, I know: she'll probably need to learn vi eventually, too. Later.) Anyway, she seems to be having fun, and that's what counts.

Comments

[ashi.livejournal.com]

Yay, ssh (putty for Windows?) and pine.

Btw, nice song reference in the subject. Now I have the Space Invaders song stuck in my head...

[mdlbear]

Terraterm, I believe, though we have putty as well.

Should have had the song title in the "music" field -- corrected now.

[trogula.livejournal.com]

Cygwin is your friend - it's what keeps me sane in Windows world. There's even a port of the Windowmaker window manager.

[mdlbear]

Agreed -- been using CygWin for years now. Haven't usually had the disk space required for installing X, but I imagine that'll get fixed eventually. These days I don't use Windows enough to need it.

[mithriltabby]

Particularly cool is that the Cygwin X server has a "multiwindow" mode that lets all your X windows be peers of your Windows windows. As long as the applications you’re using aren’t demanding the special functionality of a Windows console, xterm is blazingly faster than a command prompt.