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There was no firewall in front of our campus and we were using rlogin to connect outside. I used export DISPLAY from Brest to Paris (to use xdvi that was not installed locally).
IMO, the security (ssh and killing rlogin) is the main change that is a really useful progress.
The shell syntactical sugars also have some weird gotchas. The &2>&1 question and its answer are a good example of that. You're just trading one complexity (low level knowledge) for another (the long list of syntax rules). Shell languages break the rule of not letting abstractions get in the way of insight and intuitiveness.
I know that people will argue that shell languages are not programming languages, and that terseness is important for the former. And yet, we still have people complaining about it. This is the programmer ego and the sysadmin ego of people clashing with each other. After all, nobody is purely just one of those two.
This redirection relies on foundational concepts (file descriptors, stdin 0, stdout 1, stderr 2) that need to be well understood when using unix. IMO, this helps to build insight and intuitiveness. A pipe is not magic, it is just a simple operation on file descriptors. Complexity exists (buffering, zombies), but not there.
It's also not that "user friendly": depending on their locale, users will usually expect for instance DD/MM/YYYY. Sorting by YYYY-MM-DD won't feel natural to them.
https://github.com/jichu4n/pilot-link/blob/master/doc/README.usb
https://web.archive.org/web/20160226115446/http://www.pilot-link.org/
apt-get install pilot-link
export PILOTPORT=/dev/ttyUSB0
pilot-xfer --sync=/root/.pilot
pilot-xfer -i /home/jef/Documents/Jef/old/pilotgone.prc
pilot-dlpsh -p /dev/ttyUSB0 -i
It is 2025 and now we've got LLMs to write our code - that may actually be a strong argument in favor of keeping XSL(T): It is a useful browser mechanism and LLMs makes it easier to harvest.
Does anybody have experience with LLM-generated XSL(T)?
My previous change in this file was in 2017 when I replaced xalan by the xslt processor built in java. I was very surprised I had to make the following changes:
-<xsl:if test="string(serverName)=$sName">
+<xsl:if test="string(serverName)=string($sName)">
-<xsl:for-each select="attributeList/attribute[self::attribute!='']">
+<xsl:for-each select="attributeList/attribute[text()!='']">
-<xsl:if test="preceding-sibling::Connection[featureType='Receptacle'][position() = 1]/@Name!=@Name or not(preceding-sibling::Connection[featureType='Receptacle'][position() = 1]/node()) ">
+<xsl:if test="preceding-sibling::Connection[position() = 1]/@Name!=@Name or position()=1">
My main hindrance is the fear that a hacker will hack into my home network
I think the belief of ordinary people most likely to dispose them to atrocity is that of prioritizing the ingroup. Once we believe that the members of one's own family, or company, or country, carry more moral value than others, we're doomed to a descent limited only by our ability to make these world-worsening trades.
When I was a child, my dad would sometimes engage in small acts of corruption to please me or my brother. Taking somebody else's spot, telling white lies to get more than his share of a rationed good, that sort of thing. It never sat right with me. "Family first" has a very ominous ring to me.