Links for 21 March 2008

posted Thu 20 Mar 2008 by Michael Galloy under Mac, Visualization

[shell-fu]$ lists handy, or just plain cool, Unix shell commands. You can learn some shell scripting through the great examples on this site.
FlowingData is giving away a copy of Tufte’s The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. To enter, post a comment on any new post on FlowingData in the next ten days.
Terminal tip to have all links open in tabs of a single Safari 3.1 window. This is one of the reasons I switched from Safari back to Firefox recently (the other being that the Firefox 3 betas have fixed the issues I was having with Firefox).

2 Responses to “Links for 21 March 2008”

longfei says:
November 28th, 2013 at 3:00 am
Hello, I’m doing the IDL’s RPC remote connection on Linux,when I open two terminal on the same machine that one is server and the other is client can be connected,but when I open two terminal on different machines,it can not be connected.
I start the server by ‘IDLRPC -SERVER=0x20500001’ and the client connect the server by ‘./IDL_RPC_TEST 0x20500001 hostname’,on the same machine it can be connected, Otherwise I can’t. Can you tell me where is wrong? Thanks
Michael Galloy says:
November 29th, 2013 at 3:26 pm
Sorry, I don’t have any experience with RPC. I assume you read the EDG about it?

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