D'oh! moments

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On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 06:58:05PM -0400, Duane Morin wrote:
> When I take the laptop in to the office I execute an "ifdown eth0" 
> before going home so that I dont accidentally try to fire up some
> net-sensitive app and have to wait for a timeout.
> 
> Today I did that from a terminal window and found myself saying
> "Why is it taking so long?" before realizing that i had accidentally
> done it in a window where I was ssh'd in to the server.  That smarts.
> 
> What do people do in a situation like that?  The machine in my
> basement has no head, and the only monitor in the house is my
> flatscreen up in the office.  So doing stuff local on the server
> means having to take apart my Windows machine and lug the monitor 
> downstairs, possibly just to issue a 3 second command.
> 
> Duane
> 
> 
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