[dba-Tech] Ubuntu thin client

Hans-Christian Andersen hans.andersen at phulse.com
Sun Jan 20 16:32:29 CST 2013


Hi Shamil,

No problem then :) you should be fine using BASH then

- Hans



On 2013-01-20, at 1:22 PM, Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru> wrote:

> Hi Hans --
> 
> I worked with command line OSes for 10+ years, I have even used typewriter to control Soviet clones of IBM 360/370.
> That was funny. Magnetic tapes and drums, JCL and punchcards etc.
> Then PIP (Peripheral Interchange Program) was one of my main tools to communicate with RSX11-M/PDP-11 as well as command line debugger  or magnetic tape backup program (BRV?). As RSX11-M used Radix50 to keep chars as compact as possible within two bytes' words (6 chars) all the commands and arguments were rather cryptic - that is technology were C/Unix/Linux origin from: PDP-11 (and I even used to work with PDP-8 and punch tape to load programs into PDP-8). 
> I mean I'm not afraid of command line at all but only when it's really needed.
> 
> I'm rarely using command line nowadays - nevertheless I'm doing quite advanced software development.
> 
> -- Shamil
> 
> Суббота, 19 января 2013, 18:35 -08:00 от Hans-Christian Andersen <hans.andersen at phulse.com>:
>> Yeah, you can use synaptic as well, but its probably better you get familiar with the command line sooner rather than later - especially if you are doing software development. :)
>> 
>> - Hans
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On 2013-01-19, at 4:56 PM, Salakhetdinov Shamil < mcp2004 at mail.ru > wrote:
>> 
>>> OK, I see 'Ubuntu Software Center' but not '... Manager'.
>>> 
>>> Anyway, I have got Synaptic Package Manager installed and searched for node.js - here it's?:
>>> 
>>> <<<
>>> Node.js event-based server-side javascript engine
>>> 
>>> Node.js is similar in design to and influenced by systems like
>>> Ruby's Event Machine or Python's Twisted.
>>> 
>>> It takes the event model a bit further - it presents the event
>>> loop as a language construct instead of as a library.
>>> 
>>> Node.js is bundled with several useful libraries to handle server tasks :
>>> System, Events, Standard I/O, Modules, Timers, Child Processes, POSIX,
>>> HTTP, Multipart Parsing, TCP, DNS, Assert, Path, URL, Query Strings.
>>> 
>>> I will setup it tomorrow. Time to go to bed here.
>>> 
>>> Thank you.
>>> 
>>> -- Shamil
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Суббота, 19 января 2013, 19:44 -05:00 от Arthur Fuller < fuller.artful at gmail.com >:
>>>> Sorry, I meant Ubuntu Software Manager, but Synaptic Pakage Manager should
>>>> work fine.
>>>> 
>>>> Arthur
>> 
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