[Sussex] Most insanely useful software every written

Steve Dobson SDobson at manh.com
Mon Jul 28 15:36:00 UTC 2003


Hi Geoff et al

On 28 July 2003 at 14:36 Geoff Teale wrote:
> OK, OK OK,
> 
> Now. I should have been clearer, maybe set a few rules:

I feel spec creep coming on :-)

Geoff is becoming a PHB!

> So:
> 
> 1/
> It doesn't have to be on Linux, or indeed Unix.  If you think 
> Outlook is _the_ 
> app, please say so, we'll laugh at you, but at least you'll be honest.
> 
> 2/
> It has to be userland software (not the kernel, or a device driver).
> 
> 3/
> It should be useful because you _conciously_ use it on a 
> regular basis and it makes your life better.
> 
> Under these rules:
> 
> `ls` counts as a fair answer

So does od; I do use it a lot sometimes with "-x" sometimes with "-c"


> vmLinuz does not!

Damn that spec creep!!!
If I'm running vmware does it count as a user land process then?

Steve




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