>" About 15 years ago, I mused about the idea of having a "desert island machine". This is where I'd put someone in a room with a box that has a couple of hard drives and a working network connection. HD #1 is blank. HD #2 has a few scraps of a (Linux) OS on it: bootloader, kernel, C library and compiler, that sort of thing. There's a network connection of some sort, and that's about it.
There are no editors and nothing more advanced than 'cat' to read files. You don't have jed, joe, emacs, pico, vi, or ed (eat flaming death). Don't even think about X. telnet, nc, ftp, ncftp, lftp, wget, curl, lynx, links? Luxury! Gone. Perl, Python and Ruby? Nope.
There's your situation. What do you do? "
I would swim, do some sunbathing, eat coconuts, do some fishing and generally enjoy the situation. No work, no stress, nobody to bother. :)
It’s fantastic. I was there in 2016. Have visited Greece at least 15 times but Samos is still my favourite. Make sure you rent a bike and drive around the island.
Heh nice, I don’t know if you like sports but climbing is really fun. Each climbing problem is pretty similar to figuring out a programming problem: breaking something down into sub problems, figuring out how to do each one, and then knitting it all together! This is something I like to do for fun :)
There are no editors and nothing more advanced than 'cat' to read files. You don't have jed, joe, emacs, pico, vi, or ed (eat flaming death). Don't even think about X. telnet, nc, ftp, ncftp, lftp, wget, curl, lynx, links? Luxury! Gone. Perl, Python and Ruby? Nope.
There's your situation. What do you do? "
I would swim, do some sunbathing, eat coconuts, do some fishing and generally enjoy the situation. No work, no stress, nobody to bother. :)