Re: OT: Unicode and vi(m). Was Re: Great SWT Program

On Sep 25, 1:34 pm, Andreas Leitgeb <a...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Ok, many people already have their >10MB/s up- and downloads nowadays,
but often enough one is still faced with a slower link. Editing a file
across such a slower link with a graphical editor will take you really
looooooooonnnnnnnnnngggggggg time.

That's a good reason to edit it locally and then upload the finished
revised version of the file. Another is so that you can edit it with
your software on your hardware, instead of who knows what. Yet another
is so that the admin of the remote machine doesn't have complete
strangers running whatever binaries on their machine; they only need
to expose a few common services, e.g. HTTP and FTP if it's web
hosting.

PS: I'm not("not", not "now") sitting in front of the machine I'm
posting this from. My newsreader, mailprogram, irc-client and
more apps are all "retro" curses-based apps, which I leave running
on some server within the (also curses-based terminal-multiplexer)
"screen", from which I detach at evening, and to which I re-attach
next morning, and have all my progs still running.

How ... retro. And it adds extra points of failure, some of which are
in the especially sensitive area called "security". You're having to
run some kind of server, which creates an additional potential point
of entry for hackers, and necessarily constitutes a security risk.
Perhaps a calculated one, and a low one given certain expertise, but
nonetheless a risk. And an unnecessary one since there are more modern
methods to do this sort of thing. Really, the only reason you should
need to some other machine of yours is to access data stored on that
particular machine of yours. Merely to use it as a bridge shouldn't be
necessary.

Also at work, I regularly have to connect to a host that is, well,
perhaps about 800km away, and the link there isn't exactly of LAN-
speed. No problem with the retro-apps we use there. Casually, we
also do need graphical apps there. We used rdesktop and vnc: both
boooring.

Why not download, edit, upload? This makes the most sense in the
presence of any kind of serious lag.


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