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I just ssh'd into the zaibatsu for the first time. What follows is just me thinking out loud, but I guess that's all a phlog ever is in the end. I spent most of my first cup of coffee skulking through old posts on the bbs. In the process, I became a little more familiar with what you're all trying to do, and I like it, especially the effort to rsync the bbs between the zaibatsu and the republic, and to link other features (mail, etc.) One thing that was confusing was that I thought I was using gboard to read the bbs, but then I tried telem, which is supposed to be lighter on resources, and the experience seemed identical. So I'm not sure if I was on telem in the first place... (perhaps it's the default bbs client now?). In one of the posts, someone mentioned that the bbs replicates the functions of nntp, and I think that is true to a great extent. Ideally, it would be cool if I could read the bbs entries using slrn. I suspect someone just thought: "write that program yourself [expletive, expletive]." I also like the idea of creating a uniform way to replicate the micro-pubnix easily, so that new servers could be set up as the userbase grows, and further decentralization/federation could take place. On a completely unrelated note, up until this point, I've been composing my phlog entries using bluefish editor so that I could set the line lengths (to 60 characters, for readability). But I wanted to be able to compose them in a terminal-based editor. Last night I tried vim. I still hate it. I started out on a university mainframe account, where PINE was the default mail client. As a result I've always been a pico/nano user. So this morning I looked into nano commands and it turns out that you can set the line length as follows, when you're initiating the program: nano -r 60 Substitute whatever line length you want. Ctrl-J if you need to rejustify a paragraph after editing it. I'm going to alias that command as edgopher or something like that. I don't want the line length as a default, because I use nano for scripts, config files, etc. Anyways, time to get ready for work. I have an exam. On a Saturday. Expletive, expletive.