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Some ppl work well in GUI mode, some in text-mode and some prefer combination of both.
Lifehacker Australia interviews Linus Torvalds | Lifehacker Australia 2008
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Perhaps a server will have a keyboard, mouse, and video interface that can present a text-mode or graphical console, but will also have a serial port that can provide a text-mode console via ANSI sequences, or via an implementation-dependent protocol that directly provides the console over the serial port, so a graphical interface application can run on the other end.
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How the console displays these status items is up to it, but one might imagine that the top few lines of a text-mode screen be devote to them, laid out as a table, colour coded by status; if there's too many to fit, they can scroll, with function keys to pause or resume the scroll, to go to the next or previous page, to only show errors and warnings, etc.
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Some ppl work well in GUI mode, some in text-mode and some prefer combination of both.
Lifehacker Australia interviews Linus Torvalds | Lifehacker Australia 2008
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In some cases, our leisure and workday activities may be conflated by medium -- many of us use computers or mobile phones at work, and go on line or into text-mode for personal, leisure-related reasons as well.
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This may be accomplished by a Lynx Viewer which is a text-mode web browser.
The Importance of Sound Website Design & Search Spiders To Internet Marketers 2006
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Compare that experience from an early text-mode game to the experience of "firing" a BFG 9000.
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Compare that experience from an early text-mode game to the experience of "firing" a BFG 9000.
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However, I'm also aware that most systems still use the same old IRC-like text-mode CMC.
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Innovative GUI take on a traditionally text-mode genre
Ars Technica Peter Bright 2012
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