Linked by Richard Wareham on Mon 8th Mar 2004 20:49 UTC
Graphics, User Interfaces This essay describes the surprising results of a brief trial with a group of new computer users about the relative ease of the command line interface versus the GUIs now omnipresent in computer interfaces. It comes from practical experience I have of teaching computing to complete beginners or newbies as computer power-users often term them.
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make bash report the bg status immediately
by Hiram Abiff on Tue 9th Mar 2004 17:46 UTC

Just put a set -b in your .login, or type it at the the command prompt.