Linked by Greg Afinogenov on Wed 3rd Sep 2003 07:19 UTC
It is not fashionable nowadays to speak of the merits of the command line, in an age where things like streaming video and Aqua are an integral part of our daily life. However, I do not think that typed-in commands must necessarily be consigned to the dustbin of computer history. Of course, I am not suggesting that we all drop X and Windows and pretend like we are living in the early eighties. The command line interface still has much to offer us, and many of its benefits simply cannot physically be emulated or even replaced by graphical ones.
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I will be looking at the Unix shell, since it is the most full-featured and powerful of such interfaces
You obviously meant to add 'still in common use today' at the end of that sentence. While I never used a Lisp Machine, using Common Lisp convinces me that they must've been so much better than Unix it isn't funny.
VNC, though, unless tunnelled through SSH, offers no security at all.
So ... tunnel it through SSH. Yours is a non-argument. I'd rather tunnel VNC through SSH than have them implement their own encryption with a dozen bugs to be fixed for every bug in SSH.