[ale] Argh!!

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 09:46, Dow Hurst wrote:
> Would screen have been a way to prevent the loss?  Just asking as I am 
> still learning how to use it.
> Dow
> 
Yep! That way, simply closing the window that the process is running in
would not have terminated the process. nohup could have also worked. And
so could vnc.

> 
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 
> >I do like the tabbed shells on gnome-terminal. But I was a bit over the
> >2 hour mark into populating a database from a series of text files that
> >takes about 3.5 hours when I fat fingered the switch to another shell
> >window. I _meant_ to hit <alt>-4 and hit <alt>-F4 and closed the whole
> >#$(&^ window!!
> >
> >
> >There are days when I truly despise computers. I've been arguing with
> >this database for a while (150k+ items into Interchange linked with
> >sql-ledger on PostgreSQL) and I think I'm going to go drink whiskey now
> >and not look at for a day or so.
> >
> >
> >AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >  
> >
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