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I am a network engineer and I had been using Termius in the MAC for about an year now.But whenever if there is a need for log collection, I have to use MAC Terminal. Because I cannot scroll with the mouse and select the text. This is a big disadvantage for me. (I don't want to press cmd+A and do a select-all)

Also it will be better if the list of connections (and folders) are displayed readily accessible always in the left or on the top.

I have not used the app in mobile. Because I am skeptical to store the hostnames and IPs (and definitely passwords) on a third party application.

I have used asciinema for this purpose. Do you think it will be useful to link asciinema recordings with this?

I am a network engineer for a medium size company (I have worked for very large enterprises too) and there a a lot of opportunities for startups in network engineering.

1)Simple network automation platform that works for "My" custom environment, simply and effortlessly and also it should not break any existing network. (I don't mean like HP Network Automation)

2) Network diagram software - Seriously, any experienced network engineer will agree that this one needs a lot of disruption. Visio is very expensive and even then it is a pain to use. And Lucidchart or Cacoo or draw.io or other online tools too have their flaws/drawbacks.

3)Network monitoring tools - It is a pity that CA Spectrum, which is a ugly and non user-friendly tool, in my opinion, is among the most used network monitoring software. Network monitoring tools are bread and butter of NOC (Network Operation Center) teams.

4) Network devices configuration management tool and Change and topology visualization tool - Netbrain seemed promising in the start. But it seems to do too many things and has still room for improvement.

It is high time that more and more programmers should start building and contributing in network engineering field. There are numerous tools for each and every function. But there is lot of room for improvement in making those tools more elegant, easier to use and more reliable.

Yes, there is Software Defined Networking (SDN) where the vendors (Cisco, Silverpeak, Riverbed etc) themselves provide a nice visual dashboard. But the current "non-SDN" devices are going to stay for quite some time. And also why do we need to depend on one vendor and hence the Vendor provided dashboard? There will always be customers who would want vendor agnostic architecture and common tools to manage the infrastructure.

Note: A lot of the current tools (especially the ones I have mentioned above) do work very well and are used by large enterprises for a reason. But Tesla did disrupt the market of cars in its own way when reliable Toyotas and fast Ferraris already existed.

I really appreciate the SO team in bringing this up and considering this as a priority issue. Many people have been the "third group" as mentioned by "sigstoat" above, just because of the hostility.

there's also the third, silent, probably much larger group, who neither asks questions nor answers them.

it seems as though the single authoritative, comprehensive answers is what helps those people the most.

I hope something good comes out of this effort from the SO team.

However, I just hope that this effort to be lenient though doesn't lead this site from being a fairly reliable site for learning purpose, to becoming "Quora 2.0". i.e far too many duplicates and far too many low-quality questions, that it actually drives away the current expert crowd away from the site.

Great! Now the whole world can see which domains you are interested in. This is supposed to be some last resort backup when all other DNS servers (8.8.8.8 and others) are down or blocked? In that extreme case of unavailability, what is the guarantee that local Govt is not involved and Twitter and/or sms to Twitter is not blocked.

Am I missing any use case here?

All you people living in the US complaining about DST thinking only you have a problem with it.

Well, guess what, you wouldn't have imagined a tiny fraction of people on the other end of the world too have a problem with it.

When DST is in effect, engineers supporting US from India work from 5:30pm to 2:30am. When DST ends in November the guys have to work from 6:30pm to 3:30am. And this is just for east coast. Granted it is just one hour. But it does make a lot of difference when the travel back to home takes 1hr and by the time you are trying to fall asleep, the Sun is shining bright outside the window.

And I have worked in this manner for 5 continuous years in continuous night shifts until I shifted recently to one of the (very few) companies who have day shift jobs in my area of specialization and simultaneously not having a shitty pay. I used to hate going to office between November to March, no matter how much I did like my job and the technology. And so I used to treasure those work-from-home days.

Edit: Added formatting, correct error and added some context.

If the developer of asciinema is here, I just want to thank you for this amazing application. It is so useful and so easy to use. When I am learning something new in Linux, I research a lot and finally achieve something, only to forget how I did it a few months later. But with asciinema, I don't have this problem. I am able to record the stuff whenever I am doing anything new in Linux. Really glad to know about the 2.0 features especially that we don't lose the recording if it is interrupted.

Thanks for the links

I would like to share an anecdote. In March 2016, I was weighing 96 kilograms (211.64 pounds). I made just one change during that time which is to stop having anything with sugar. I continued to take other natural sweeteners like jaggery and honey. The rest of my diet remained the same and my activity level remained the same ( I work in IT as a network engineer in a desk job)

In October 2016, I was weighing 72 kilos (158.73 pounds). I am still maintaining that same weight between 70 to 72 kilos since then. Incase if it is relevant, I am a 29 year old guy with a height of 172 cm (5 feet 7 inches).

Along with that, I got several other benefits such as being more energetic, not feeling sleepy all the time, general improvement in mood etc.

All this just with stopping of sugar and nothing else changed.

I can share even more side benefits which I got, but it will seem more unbelievable because I have observed that the general population is still unaware of the extremely harmful effects of sugar.

EDIT: I had typed October 2017 when I had intended to type October 2016. It was just 7 months.

Does this phone have a IMEI number? In my country, it is not possible to use a phone without a valid IMEI, let alone the fact that that it is illegal. How does the process of assigning IMEI work?

I doubt this. Anything naturally occurring and has existed for millions of years cannot be bad for us. No matter, what the "research" says.

And if you do want to go by research, please read the works and watch videos of "Robert Lustig" (http://profiles.ucsf.edu/robert.lustig )

I second this. Sugar does much more harm to our body than we usually realize. After stopping sugar, my health tremendously improved. But the first few weeks and months of stopping sugar, (I used to consume too much sugar earlier) I noticed the worst possible games my mind can play against me. My mind used to say that it is ridiculous and I am being impractical, childish and what not!. It was a war and I won it. And now I am reaping the benefits. I am able to focus better. I am having better energy and my memory has improved.

The exact answer to your question is explained in this book and Carl calls it as "Deep Work".

I too second the recommendation for "Deep Work" by Carl Newport (http://calnewport.com/books/deep-work/ ). This is one book which is a must-read for all the current generation technology workers like us. I started reading this book about two weeks back and I have finished reading 90% of the book. Already I am seeing tremendous improvement in my day-to-day life.

I found the opposite to be true for myself. If I don't take notes, I forget soon. But if I take notes, at the time of taking notes, I am processing the information in a way that I can explain myself. So somehow that helps me remember a little longer even if I don't read those notes a second time.

I am really liking this idea.

I am not a programmer. I am a network engineer. In my daily work I have to research a lot on network engineering. In fact, atleast one hour in my job each day involves researching about the topics in network engineering that I am working on.

And I see myself using a similar tool when it is available.

One major factor I would like you to consider is that the web is very much transient. The URL that we see now may not exist one month from now, due to various reasons.

One clumsy workaround that I have been using so far is to use archive.org 's wayback machine tool to archive those pages and add those URLs too. Maybe you can implement something similar. It cannot be something you host because I guess you yourself wouldn't know how long you would be interested/able to support this tool.

I know Evernote intends to solve this in a lot of ways. But I hate Evernote due to lots of reasons. I am more of of a OneNote guy.

Also, is your tool is geared especially towards programmers only? There is nothing wrong in that if you would like to keep it that way. But can you also consider adapting it so that people from other technical fields can use it?

The article specifies that we can opt out of it. But it doesn't say how to do it? Does it? Does anyone know how to opt out?

can you please elaborate more? I am looking to setup something similar. I have minimal linux knowledge and I have done a basic setup of weechat+screen.

What worries me is that this product is owned by Citrix.

Our company uses other products by Citrix extensively like GoToMeeting, Citrix applications etc. And if those products get compromised, then it will be a huge enterprise level financial loss.

Just because of how clearly you have explained it, I would surely want to buy your book when it releases. As of now, I know nothing about Docker except one or two buzz lines. And by reading your book when it releases, I am sure I can get a full picture. BTW, who will be target audience for your book?

The head of mRemoteNG has posted in the forums[1] in Jan 2016 asking advise on whether he should declare the project dead.

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mRemoteNG has not been in active development for quite some time now. After I lost my job, I had hoped I could make a living maintaining mRemoteNG. However, user contributions and website advertising revenue turned out not to be enough to make that possible and the open source license means there are not many other options for monetization.

It's time that I either hand the reigns over to someone else or declare the project dead. I feel bad for not doing so sooner.

If I let someone else take over, the question is, how do I find such a person, and how do I make sure they are the right person? It's a lot of work for very little reward. In addition to writing code, you need to triage bug reports in JIRA, reply to emails, reply to forum posts, keep the forum spam free, and countless other things. For mRemoteNG to thrive, you will need help and finding and coordinating those helpers is a lot of work in itself.

The big question though is, is it worth it? The architecture of mRemoteNG is old and fragile. I made many bug fixes, improvements, and refactored a lot but there's still a ton that needs to be improved. Nearly every seemingly simple bug report or feature request ends up being a huge can of worms due to deep architectural issues or third party dependencies.

So, what are everyone's thoughts? Do I declare the project dead or find someone to continue it? People have offered to help but how do I make sure they're trustworthy? How do I make sure I don't just hand mRemoteNG over to someone who will just steal all of your passwords or something?

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Felix, the original author of mRemote had replied[2] in that thread in March 2016 offering to help

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Hi there,

I'm Felix, the original author of mRemote which I initially started in 2007. I've previously worked with rmcardle to transition the project to him since I joined ASG (visionapp back then) to improve ASG Remote Desktop. A few years back I then joined the Royal Applications team to try something new - build a remote connections manager for the Mac. Since then it's been 4 years that I'm happily building and improving Royal TSX (for OS X): https://www.royalapplications.com/ts/osx/features

Since I'm still developing a competing commercial product and due to my past relationship with mRemote, I've monitored mRemoteNG development quite closely. Furthermore, I've seen references to "Owner of the original mRemote", "Original mRemote author", etc. so I wanted to chime in on the discussion and generally offer myself as being available for questions or inquiries of all kinds.

So, if you need anything, just PM me or reply to this thread.

cheers, felix

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[1] http://forum.mremoteng.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3137#p6165

[2] http://forum.mremoteng.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3137&start=20...

My first language is Tamil which is spoken in South India. Tamil is known to be a very ancient language.

The interesting fact is that Tamil has had distinct names for wide range of numbers[1] ranging from 10^21 to fractions as small as 1/2,323,824,530,227,200,000,000

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_numerals#Sanskrit-System

There are people who debate that Tamil is as old/older than Sanskrit. But there is no proof for that claim. But there is more than conclusive proof that these distinct names for these large and small numbers existed in written texts since very long time.

Edit: Grammar, fixed link

This does not directly answer your question. But there is a way using third party software.

You can use "https://telegram.org" telegram messsenger.

It works flawlessly from the cli.

Yes, you cannot use it if you don't want your chats to pass through a third party server. But maybe you can try out the "secret chat" feature with auto destroy feature.

The traditional options have already been listed by others here. I just wanted to tell something which is easy to setup and also reliable.

Does anyone know how to achieve this for individual states of India? I would like to have huge maps printed for individual states which shows even the big villages.Is this possible? Or atleast can we do this for big cities like Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi?

So does this mean that we might have Microsoft Lync client coming up for Linux?

When I tried to use Lync on browser, I remember seeing something about .NET. Or is it silverlight?

I have opened a room. https://niltalk.com/r/8CKyw I am not going to tell the password though. Let's see how long it lasts!

If you do want to testify, definitely do it. If you are worried about people able to Google you and find that you testified, there is a lot of ways to solve that problem.

You don't even need to go for extensive SEO, as Search Engines may change their algorithms every now and then.

What you can do is, you can create a website for your professional profile where you write blog posts. In one of the blog posts, you can clearly explain your standpoint in your own words. Just link this website to your Linkedin and other social networks. This is important because you have to say in your own words what you want others to see about you, so as to nullify any false idea others may get on googling you.

The recruiter who is going to hire you will surely see the link to the website that YOU have listed and if he really cares about you, that person will read the blog posts. So you definitely have control.

Celebrities all across the world have to deal with stuff which might malign their image, every single day. And you can notice that many celebrities just give a clear statement in their own words and it works out well.

Finally, it comes down to the decision whether you would like to testify or not.