jethro at freakzilla.com writes: > Hey, > > Quoting Ben Lutgens <blutgens at sistina.com>: > > > And what praytell would you use a shell service for? Personally I > > prefer just opening up an xterm and doing my work on a machine I am > > responsible for, but that's just me. > > Sometimes you want to check connectivity to your own systems from a remote > system. Or at least that's what I needed an external shell for. Yes, that's *extremely* useful. For the last year or so I've had an account on an acquaintance's machine, so I haven't used free shell services for this, but looking at your own site from *outside* can be critical to testing/debugging things. I also used my *own* server for that from several jobs. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / Ghugle: the Fannish Ghod of Queries Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ Photos: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/