I strongly recommend blinkenshell, its run by this Swedish IT student. You have to hang around on their IRC channel, if they like you they will give you an account (you need 3 recommendations from members). You can use your account to maintain a 24hr IRC connection, for html site, email and most popular compilers are installed. You will learn a lot about Linux by talking to the people on their channel, its mostly IT students.
You will learn a lot about Linux by talking to the people on their channel, its mostly IT students.
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Anonymous2011-09-08 2:05
can someone please explain what sort of stuff you use a shell for?
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Anonymous2011-09-08 2:58
can someone please explain what sort of stuff you use a shell for?
the best way to learn how to use Linux is through a remote shell because it forces you to use the console for everything and not fall back on the gui
the best way to learn how to use Linux is through a remote shell because it forces you to use the console for everything and not fall back on the gui
can someone please explain what sort of stuff this guy meant by "everything"?
>>15
everything as in litterally everything. you have no need for a graphical interface with Linux, you can do all your programming, web browsing, email, newsgroups, IRC from the console. either do a minimal ubuntu install where you have no x windows, or use a shell account
>>16
Why would you use a shell account for programming, web browsing, email, newsgroups, IRC? To learn how to use a shell account for programming, web browsing, email, newsgroups, IRC? Doesn't seem like a terribly sensible investment of effort to me.
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Anonymous2011-09-08 8:49
>>14
\You can run software as root on your own server 24/7
\Any software. BBS,IRC, Web, Minecraft servers, Chess Servers, etc
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Anonymous2011-09-08 8:53
>>16
why the fuck would I bother? It's just the same as emacs but I can't view pictures.
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!L33tUKZj5I2011-09-08 11:22
>>10 It's called shell.cjb.net. I use it too. They have BSD on amd64.
Ah yes, god knows how I switched that around so badly.
why the fuck would I bother? It's just the same as emacs but I can't view pictures.
when someone asks a question like that I immediately know they do not work in the IT industry nor study anything having to do with computers. So I have to wonder if its really worth the bother answering this question because these types of questions will just keep getting asked over and over by people who know nothing about computers who somehow think its silly and old fashioned that most all major systems administration tasks are still done on the command line
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Anonymous2011-09-08 12:19
>21 posts
>fucking no one has mentioned amazon web services yet
jesus fuck niggers, why won't you realize its 2011? there's a free tier that gives you your own root box for a year, no hanging around in faggot IRC channels required.
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Anonymous2011-09-08 13:27
>>22
amazon r evil corporashun, dey wil steal all ur data
>>21
Yes, indeed we are not IT monkeys nor do we want to become that. Now fix that printer and go back to Slashdot.
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Anonymous2011-09-08 14:39
>>22
Require giving them your credit card number and they will make you pay over a usage above limits.
>You must create and maintain an AWS account in good standing (including a valid credit card) to participate in the Offer. Your participation in the Offer and your use of the AWS services is subject to the AWS Customer Agreement. The Offer is a Special Pricing Program under the AWS Customer Agreement.
>You will be charged standard rates for use of the AWS services prior to November 1, 2010 or after the Offer expires. You also will be charged AWS’s standard rates for any use that exceeds the free usage amount provided under the Offer.
>Unused usage amounts remaining at the end of the month do not roll over to subsequent months.
>We may stop accepting new registrations for the Offer at any time.
Anapnea 256mb disk space
* No BNC or eggdrop allowed.
* No torrenting allowed.
* One account per person.
* No setting up your own server/daemon/bot/proxy of any kind is allowed.
* No exploiting any network resources for illegal purposes is allowed.
* No running any pointlessly CPU-intensive binaries such as bruteforcers.
* No usage of your Anapnea account to harrass a third party is allowed.
* You are encouraged to not overuse network resources.
there much better hosts with less restrictions: http://shells.red-pill.eu/
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Anonymous2011-09-08 15:45
What do people actually use shell accounts for? If setting up IRC and/or a VPN proxy is disallowed and you have very limited CPU and memory resources, what's the point?
What do people actually use shell accounts for? If setting up IRC and/or a VPN proxy is disallowed
thats actually the main use of a remote shell is to maintain a 24/7 connection for IRC logs, I dont see how that Anapnea server can exist with such a rule
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Anonymous2011-09-08 18:02
Anyone got invite codes for insomnia247.nl?
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Anonymous2011-09-08 18:03
>>27
You must be exactly the kind of people they want to keep out.
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Anonymous2011-09-08 18:19
I just discovered there is such a thing as free shell accounts.
I would preffer free Lisp Machine accounts.
>>37
What do you have to hide? $ less saucy-stories/butter.txt ? $ lynx gurochan.org ?
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Anonymous2012-09-26 17:38
If you sign up for Amazon EC2 you get one free micro instance. I use mine as a what.cd seedbox, so I sometimes go over my free traffic quota and end up paying like 7 cents, but if you don't do anything too intensive with it you can easily get away with paying nothing. Plus you can do anything with it. Hell, you can run your own free shell service with it.