Re: cell phone annoyances

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:09:09 +0100, riotnrrd wrote:
Incidentally, all command line tools are great, as one can get away with
*any*thing as long as it's in a shell window. PHBs and similar beasties
experience kernel panics long before getting close enough to resolve the
characters.

Indeed. An earlier boss[1] of mine, when spotting an open shell window
which was SSH'd into my home machine, commented that "I don't know what
you're doing there, and I don't care, as long as the work gets done." The
most comment I've gotten from VP-level PHBs was along the lines of
"That's so plain, why don't you use a prettier tool for editing?"


[1] With decidedly blunt hair. I'd gladly work for him again.
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