On Thu, March 27, 2008 2:01 pm, Andrew Lentvorski 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 > >
HERETIC! APOSTATE! </me casts about for stones to throw> This is about scripting like god wants us to, not typing commands one at a time and waiting, or even (god forbid) doing the windows dance, "here a click, there a click, everywhere a click-click." -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
