On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> kelsey hudson wrote: > > Lan Barnes wrote: > > > >> <grumble> but whatever happened to the *nix tradition of "return > silently > >> on success"? > > > > Blame windows. > > No, blame UNIX. UNIX is the wrong one is this instance. > > In human-computer interaction, anything which takes longer than .1 > seconds causes the human brain to notice. At that point, status becomes > a necessity. > > Second, if you know any semi-old school sysadmins, you will realize that > UNIX on workstations was never silent. > > Hands up. How many sysadmins are still uncomfortable that they can't > hear their hard drives rattle anymore? > > That hard drive rattle was the progress meter. > > -a > > Oh, they still rattle, but the old skool admins you're talking about can't hear that high anymore... :) -- Mark Schoonover, CMDBA http://www.linkedin.com/in/markschoonover http://marksitblog.blogspot.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
