Tag archive 'Conquering the Command Line'

ENSO is open! Launch that app!

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-04-18

Humanized has released their keyboard interaction environment ENSO under a free BSD license. Even bigger news: a Linux version is coming!

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Securing all remote connections

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-12-21

I have been relying heavily on the insecure File Transfer Protocol (FTP) for some time. But having been intercepted and watching my websites and computers being compromised again and again have finally got to me. I am now going the much more secure way of using Secure Shells (SSH).

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I draw action-lines, not thought lines

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-11-26

I just realized why I so strongly dislike the command line interface. I am used to completing actions by draw lines in my thoughts. I imagine dragging the mouse over the screen, pointing it at something, and clicking to perform an action.

By typing out my actions in the command line; I am being forced to think completely stationary and horizontally. I have to think like a poet, and remember how to do everything. I do not see the solutions to the problems I have before me. I have to remember them.

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Adding numbers on computers

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-09-16

Many thinks of graphical user interfaces as being easy. However there is one task that is still very difficult to achieve: adding numbers—actually math in general. Users have to make at least three mouse clicks to get the correct interface—or the calculator application—before starting to calculate. This goes for most graphical user interfaces. But does it have to be this difficult?

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