Brandon's Blog

8/25/2008

Extreme Measures

I just wrote a shell script that looks up a webpage, text-only formats it, and mails it to a specified e-mail address.

Why?  SSH isn’t proxied or filtered (how would you filter near-“random line noise” on a specified port?).  So, if the net is down here it’s likely the proxy server.  And SSH therefore is likely okay, as is e-mail.

Meaning I can SSH into the home server and issue a command to fetch and send a webpage, which I receive via Outlook at work in a few seconds.  Work can continue.

This is what they mean when they talk about burnout!