G'day, > The main issue is that of "controllability and observability"; > with W95 there is a hierarchy of pre-defined GUI interfaces to pre-defined > functionalities. Often the details of their functions, or constraints, are > not well defined (publically).
Yeah, I know this feeling too... My main system is (was, before it died) a WinNT 4 system, with a DEC tulip PCI 10/100 Ethernet card. For some reason, ever so often, the network card doesn't work. I think it's autosensing the hub wrong, but nothing seems to fix it. It would be so much easier if there was a syslog to look into and see what error messages, if any, were comming up. Nothing is recorded anyweher (not even in the NT system logs). So I agree... a nice GUI is the only way to sell an OS to the masses (which is prolly what KDE and GNOME are about (well, okay, not *sell*, but you know what I mean...) But to actually do anything, you need to be able to look under the hood... Cheers, damon -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Systems Administrator EmpireNET Melbourne, Australia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]