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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 is the only editor that works.


Right now I am sitting on a Sailboat in the Bahamas.


And reading HN with Lynx?


You really should get off HN and enjoy the sea.


Tomorrow 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.


Maybe 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?


Please be nice.


How many monitors do you have? (:

http://secretgeek.net/jat_vc.asp


I 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.


I 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...




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