I have an confession: I don't really like screen . I never have; it'salways struck me as an poor substitute for a real windowing system,something you only resort to when you can't get the real thing for onereason or another.

(What really boggles me is the people who aggressively use screeninside X, winding up with one terminal window with everything insidea screen session.)

One of the most painful limitations of screen for me has been that youcan't see

Back around 1999, Tim Berners-Lee wrote Cool URIs don't change , which is about how your URLsshouldn't change (and he gave advice on how to manage it). People havebeen nodding sagely every since (I hope, since it's a good idea). Butthere's a problem.

The problem with cool URLs not changing is that it means that yourURLs are forever. This means that you either have to get the URL rightbefore you publish it

As an update on the Solaris ssh stuff :

Sun has just today released version 08 of patch 114356, which fixes the 'xmalloc: zero size' problem (charmingly describedin the patch README as 'New ssh in Sol. 9 exits if the key fingerprintcannot be found in the known_host files'), but not the problemswith mech_krb5.so and the GSS stuff.

This is a good step forward, and it fixes the most important issue,since

It's not the carefully spun death of WinFS ,or even ( as Cringley put it ) that Microsofthas spent five years and five billion dollars not shipping WindowsVista.

Microsoft's problem is that ordinary people can't keep Windows machinessecured. Spyware and other malware is rampant, compromised Windows boxesare perhaps the single largest source of spam email on the Internet,and anti-virus and anti-spyware software is now considered a basicrequirement on machines.

( Anecdotally , it'salready to the