Jargons of Info Tech industry

[axel at white-eagle.invalid.uk]

In comp.lang.perl.misc Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
> axel at white-eagle.invalid.uk writes:
>> In comp.lang.perl.misc John Bokma <john at castleamber.com> wrote:
>>> Chris Head <chris2k01 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> What advantages would those be (other than access from 'net cafes, but
>>>> see below)?
>>> And workplaces. Some people have more then one computer in the house. My 
>>> partner can check her email when I had her over the computer. When I 
>>> want to check my email when she is using it, I have to change the 
>>> session, fire up Thunderbird (which eats away 20M), and change the 
>>> session back.
>> Not a Windows solution, but I find the 'screen' utility invaluable as
>> I can have my email, news, and an editor open in different screens
>> and then when I need to move to a different machine, I can simply
>> detach and reattach screen without disturbing anything that
>> might be running.
 
> For a more  portable solution, check out VNC.
 
I know... but it is a bugger to set up and I believe it is no longer
freeware (if it ever was), and it does not have the stark simplicity
which screen has... I only need to have a compiled version of screen
on the machine on which I do most of my work and be able to ssh/telnet
to that machine without involving any additional software installations
on other machines.

Axel