Poor Horst!
He has no understanding of how some of us
are not at literate as he.
Neither does he understand the nature of
the ageing brain – some thing have to be taught to us piecemeal. There
are vast areas of ignorance and wonder and surely the whole idea is to have it
as get and forget.
I have no desire to go back to starter
handles, setting the points, checking the oil like I used to have to do.
In this case for most of us it is not the
journey it is the destination whereas for Horst the Journey
may be more enjoyable.
There is a certain envy also.
David de Bhál
www.v-practice.com
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Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 12:52 PM
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Group Talk
Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Argus question
is it overloading the headless machine to have X windowing system installed
and remote desktop access via something like vnc ?
On Mon Aug 21 21:41 , Horst Herb sent:
On Monday 21 August 2006 08:52, Ian Cheong
wrote:
> No question about it, if you want GPs
to use it, it had better be as
> easy as a toaster,
Doubtless.
But why oh why does everybody presume that a single click installer must
preclude the option of a fine tuned manual installation if the user prefers
it? Think of automatized installation on hundreds of systems. I can install
most of the software I want on *all* computers of m network with a single
command - no can do with single click GUI interfaces, when they are not
scriptable.
Anyway, "easy as toaster" means different things for different people
under
different circumstances.
To me. "easy as toaster" is how my networks runs once it is setup
properly.
Zero administration.
This is only possible because I know exactly what is running on my machines,
how it is set up to work without causing any trouble or nasty interaction
with other processes.
Single click installs are fine for people who are used to their computers
a) being used just by a single person, not networked
b) computers crashing often
c) computer doing something, but not necessarily what the user expects
(single click the option that appeals to you)
To me, anything that has a GUI means that it expects me to interact with it.
There is in fact very, very little software I want to interact with. I expect
my computer to do the work for me and not the other way round - meaning that
most of my software is expected to run unattended, silently in the background
without pestering me. The only thing a GUI is good for me is for interactive
data entry (e.g. progress notes) and data browsing.
Horst
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