On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 11:39:00AM -0700, Karl Cunningham wrote:
> On 10/26/2006 9:24 AM, Bob La Quey wrote:
> >On 10/25/06, Bob La Quey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>Famous last words,
> >>
> >>I thought this would be easy ...
> >
> >One line in .fetchmailrc was all it took
> >
> >mda /usr/sbin/postfix
> >
> >C that was easy ... but I really find it hard
> >to revel in knowing such esoteric crap. I
> >suppose I should just get over it but I keep
> >hoping for a better way.
> >
> >Does all of this really have to be this complex?
> >
> >Or is it just an artifact of the historic way these
> >systems have been built and acrued kruft. I do
> >not know but elegant it is not.
>
> I totally agree.
>
> I've said to my wife many times that as hard as the designers try,
> computers aren't made to be operated by people without technical
> knowledge. I suppose a corollary would be that Linux machines aren't
> made to be configured by those who don't already know how.
>
> The seemingly constant method is:
> 1. Install new software. Do config. Try it out.
> 2. Doesn't work.
> 3. Check logs.
> 4. Stare at config files.
> 5. Google. Find advice on what to do. Change config according to advice.
> 6. Still doesn't work. Turns out advice was written for different
> version, fixes wrong problem, was wrong, etc.
> 7. Google some more. Find one useful piece of info in an email post
> somewhere. Change config.
> 8. Still doesn't work, but different problem now. Loop back to step 3
> until it's working or you give up.
>
> Karl
9. It's fixed. Forget how you did it.
10. [Much] Later, need to do it again. Beg for an answer on KPLUG and be
pointed to your last archived email.
11. Blush.
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Lan Barnes
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Tcl/Tk Enthusiast
[T]technically, you cannot be any more than an agnostic. But I am as
agnostic about God as I am about fairies and the Flying Spaghetti
Monster. You cannot actually disprove the existence of God. Therefore,
to be a positive atheist is not technically possible. But you can be as
atheist about God as you can be atheist about Thor or Apollo. Everybody
nowadays is an atheist about Thor and Apollo. Some of us just go one god
further.
- Richard Dawkins
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