Found a new favourite utility

[D-Dan]

Well, until I find the next favourite, my new favourite is anyRemote

Allows remote control of media player on linux using a bluetooth or wifi enabled phone that will run .jar files. Works a treat, too, with my ageing Samsung Jet

[Rik]

First catch your Linux.

[Technical Ben]

Cool. You know, my first phone with bluetooth came with this tool. Strange how things are now going backwards and my recent phones don't have it.

[D-Dan]

Well, it didn't arrive on my phone either - - but ti was easy enough to put there.

BTW Ben, re your sig. I'm sat here looking at an /etc folder on my Debian system, where all the system wide config files are stored.

[Technical Ben]

Fair enough. Must be the most unwise folder naming decision ever...

[esh]

"/etc" is of UNIX origins and contains configuration files, including the "hosts" file which you'll also find on Windows, so obviously some ideas were taken wholesale from the UNIX OS and remnants still remain. Anyway, back on topic...

I still vote Notepad as all time favourite utility!

[D-Dan]

I still vote Notepad as all time favourite utility!

Ooooh - contentious. As a text editor vim is far more versatile and much faster, and you don't have to use it with all that fancy GUI gubbins either. If I'm in a terminal and need to edit a text file it's far quicker to do it right there in the terminal, with syntax highlighting as appropriate. For creating a text file it's even faster to do it with cat > file.