From: Vincenzo Nicosia <katolaz@freaknet.org>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] pronouncing *nix formulas (was: screen editors)
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 06:20:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200206052037.lkd7gyxv3b45zo2f@unixfarts.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200206030044.GD21264@mcvoy.com>
On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 07:00:44PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> That's awesome. And finger, back in the days of innocence before scammers
> and viruses and black hat hackers, was super useful. I hacked my finger
> server to do all sorts of stuff, it was sort of ftp/ps/who and who knows
> what else in one.
>
> I miss the days when finger was a thing. Perhaps poorly named (perhaps
> not), whatever, it was simpler time.
>
Just to mention that finger is *still* a thing in many modern pubnix
systems, such as circumlunar.space or tildeverse.
My2Cents
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-06 5:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-08 7:39 [TUHS] screen editors Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-08 15:58 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-01-08 23:41 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-09 1:43 ` Nemo Nusquam
2020-01-08 21:49 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-08 22:01 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-17 23:38 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-18 0:07 ` Ryan Casalino
2020-01-18 23:02 ` greg travis
2020-01-10 8:13 ` markus schnalke
2020-01-10 8:17 ` U'll Be King of the Stars
2020-01-11 19:58 ` markus schnalke
2020-01-11 20:54 ` Derek Fawcus
2020-01-11 21:27 ` Henry Bent
2020-02-04 8:40 ` Sijmen J. Mulder
2020-02-04 20:14 ` [TUHS] pronouncing *nix formulas (was: screen editors) G. Branden Robinson
2020-02-04 21:05 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-02-04 21:52 ` Derek Fawcus
2020-02-04 23:27 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-05 3:34 ` Warner Losh
2020-02-05 9:49 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2020-02-05 11:40 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-05 11:43 ` Brantley Coile
2020-02-05 10:58 ` Ralph Corderoy
2020-02-05 11:45 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-05 8:45 ` arnold
2020-02-05 13:35 ` Clem cole
2020-02-05 16:11 ` [TUHS] pronouncing *nix formulas Arthur Krewat
2020-02-05 16:16 ` Clem Cole
2020-02-05 17:05 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-02-05 17:09 ` Clem Cole
2020-02-08 3:31 ` Ronald Natalie
2020-02-08 4:19 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-11 1:16 ` George Michaelson
2020-02-11 6:38 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-05 20:26 ` David Arnold
2020-02-05 19:37 ` [TUHS] pronouncing *nix formulas (was: screen editors) Dave Horsfall
2020-02-05 19:57 ` Clem Cole
2020-02-05 20:50 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-05 21:43 ` Clem Cole
2020-02-05 21:59 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-02-05 22:22 ` Ed Carp
2020-02-06 2:43 ` Dan Cross
2020-02-06 3:00 ` Larry McVoy
2020-02-06 5:20 ` Vincenzo Nicosia [this message]
2020-02-06 14:54 ` Richard Salz
2020-02-06 15:10 ` [TUHS] pronouncing *nix formulas Lars Brinkhoff
2020-02-06 20:14 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-02-06 20:20 ` Warner Losh
2020-02-06 19:55 ` [TUHS] pronouncing *nix formulas (was: screen editors) Dave Horsfall
2020-02-06 21:48 ` Michael Parson
2020-02-06 23:56 ` Michael Parson
2020-02-06 22:17 ` Clem Cole
2020-02-07 0:21 ` [TUHS] finger usage (was: pronouncing *nix formulas (was: screen editors)) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-02-07 0:27 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-02-07 0:54 ` [TUHS] finger usage (was: pronouncing *nix formulas Arthur Krewat
2020-02-07 1:00 ` Richard Salz
2020-02-07 5:26 ` Peter Jeremy
2020-02-07 4:31 ` [TUHS] finger usage (was: pronouncing *nix formulas (was: screen editors)) Dave Horsfall
2020-02-07 5:07 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-02-07 5:39 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-02-07 21:39 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-02-07 16:14 ` Arthur Krewat
2020-02-07 22:37 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-02-07 4:23 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-02-06 2:23 ` [TUHS] pronouncing *nix formulas (was: screen editors) Dan Cross
2020-02-06 2:31 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-02-05 19:08 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-02-05 21:01 ` Nemo
2020-02-05 22:06 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-10 13:41 ` [TUHS] screen editors / machine load Mike Markowski
2020-01-10 13:56 ` Otto Moerbeek
2020-01-10 15:00 ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-01-10 15:48 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-10 22:18 ` Adam Thornton
2020-01-11 0:30 ` Christopher Browne
2020-01-10 15:31 ` [TUHS] screen editors Nemo Nusquam
2020-01-10 16:04 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-10 17:10 ` Dan Cross
2020-01-10 17:18 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-01-18 1:55 ` Michael Parson
2020-01-10 15:58 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
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