[PLUG] sometimes, it just works

[Keith Morse]

On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Paul Heinlein wrote:

> A couple times, I used pine's 'launch browser' function to view a URL 
> that someone had put in a message (like the funny MS Nmap one :-).
> 
> Odd, I thought. Why is there a slight delay while mozilla pops up? 
> It's usually much snappier than that.
> 
> Then it hit me: mozilla was running on my computer at work, and the 
> bits were being shipped via an ssh tunnel.
> 
> And it just worked.
> 
> Reason #493701 I love Linux.


Caught me by surprise too, first time it happened.  I still haven't 
decided if it is a good or bad thing.  It can be annoying though when 
going through four ssh hops.  Just a tad slow.