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Ubuntu server doesn't even come with a GUI, just the terminal interface (at least out the box), I'm sure Lynx would work on that.
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 I was unaware of it really. Whenever I got a ubuntu to do stuff (that was once in a blue moon perhaps), I had a SSH with X.
Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
Carl von Clausewitz
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The vanilla server version is like this, for most server applications you probably don't want/need the overhead of an GUI. Also this is only true if you need to know what you are doing in linux, which I don't. So the first thing I did was to Google the instructions to install the desktop environment...
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Keith Barrow wrote: you probably don't want/need the overhead of an GUI
One of the things I miss about Windows 95 is the ability to boot to DOS (even though I preferred working in Windows). Never quite got the hang of Linux since every company I've worked for avoided it like the plague.
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Whenever I've used *NIX systems I've really like them, at one point (during my dissertation where the whole thing was done on the command prompt on terminal tools) I might even have raised above the level of newbie to errmm, just above newbie.At that time I could get by on the command prompt. That said I'm a .net dev by trade = microsoft stack at home, except for a couple of "play" VMs.
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You can still do this with XP and Windows 7 if you bring up the boot menu options.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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The XP one was Safe Mode with Command Prompt options. Not quite the same. Now I'm on Windows 8 and haven't tried it yet.
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Yea, not quite the same. You could always type "explorer" and blow the ruse.
And now in Windows 7 you can't even make a command prompt full-screen. 
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KDE? or Unity?
I'm a great Unity hater. Yet another addition to my public hate-list.
Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
Carl von Clausewitz
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Now, Amitosh. You know what the doctor said about starting fights. And you only out on parole for a week. 
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Unity, KDE is for splitters.
Aaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnndd that is the most of the problem with Linux in two posts.
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Keith Barrow wrote: Ubuntu server doesn't even come with a GUI, just the terminal interface (at least out the box), I'm sure Lynx would work on that.
My CentOS 6.x server was installed after deselecting all GUI components and has happily run for the past 2+ years without one installed.
I do SSH to it from PuTTY as it is wedged over the other side of the bed where keyboard, mouse and monitor cannot get to.
Michael Martin
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"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: To read a command-line, you still need a GUI
Absolutely not. I telnet into my OpenVMS servers (unless I use my VT220).
I have even written classes to allow code to telnet and perform tasks:
CommScript[^]TelnetSocket[^]
modified 3-Oct-13 11:42am.
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Telnet? Sociable of you. 
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I'm reliably informed by a gentleman with an African-sounding name that I'm due some inheritance, so I'll guess I'll retire.
He seems like a nice fellow, so I subscribed him to every newsletter here[^] and place that keeps you up to date with the latest quilts and quilting news, and of course, this site[^]. When I get home, I predict he'll start finding e-mails from the sorts of sites that feature ladies en dishabille .
The curious thing is his e-mail address is from the domain undp.org, but he has asked me to reply to an odd-looking hotmail account directly, if I want the inheritance.
Totally unsophisticated.
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Can you lend me a few quid? Just till I get paid like...
speramus in juniperus
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I can, but can you send me £100 for administrative costs (stamps, release fees etc) and your bank details so I can release unto you the sum of £1,000,000 GBP.
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Keith Barrow wrote: send me £100 for administrative costs (stamps, release fees etc) and your bank details so I can release unto you the sum of £1,000,000 GBP
How about you take that £100 from my £1,000,000 and send me the remaining £999900 
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Just till I get paid like
Or "Forever" as the rest of us call it... 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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You didn't fall for that did you?
I was told by this other gentleman with and African sounding name that you guy is a complete fraudster and not to have any dealings with him that the funds were not with him but with my gentleman.
Hadn't thought of subscribing them to BS awesome idea. Kudos!
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Make sure you're not subscribing it to some poor guy who just had his account password hacked.
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If you were to google 'Smartbel Global Intercom'...
Well, after the Paid For link, see who is third.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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4th on Google's Swiss version (Proof[^]).
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colon."
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The three in front all belong to the manufacturer.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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I thought so - Nevertheless, you are only 4th 
JK, congrats!
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colon."
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