Terminal adventures

I do a lot of work remotely for work. Somewhere in the server room there is a beast of a computer with 100's of GB of RAM and a 10-gigabit connection to a dozen other computers hosting half a petabyte of storage.

Mostly I work in MATLAB. If I need graphics, we have a nice OpenNX setup that does remote desktop quite well. It's nearly seamless when I'm on-site, and is still tolerable when I use it from home over DSL (as long as nobody else at home is using the upload capacity).

But often I don't need full graphics, just a text editor and the MATLAB command window. So in today's adventure, we are going to try setting up tmux and vim.