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On Jul 8, 2000 at 16:24, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
>You'll need to edit the script (god help you if it's big) and make a
Search and replace. Yeah, I know, there're problems with that too.
>How many administrators do you think are willing to go through this?
Not this one. Not at the level you're implying.
>That's the point I'm fighting. Why must security be painful? Why do we
>take pride in Linux being painful to the new user? What's wrong with
Because it creates an elite class. C'mon, Jace, admit it. You like being
leet :-)
>Graphical interfaces don't need to be dumb. They're simply visual cues
>to what is possible.
Unfortunately many GUIs are aimed at dumbing down the interface. That
leads us to believe GUI==dumb is true.
>Take Borland's Delphi as an example of a graphical interface done right.
Ah, Borland. They had clue.
>Borland lost the marketing war though.
Which is most unfortunate.
>Delphi is proof that good interfaces are possible. We do not need to
>look at Microsoft and Apple and decide that GUIs don't mix with
>flexibility and power.
And this is where the "but Windows is the commonest platform!" plaint
loses. Being the commonest, it caters to the lowest common denominator,
and therefore has to be dumbed down. Now the Wintel (and Mac, from what I
hear) platforms not only dumb down, but also insulate. In Linux, if the
GUI breaks you have something -- CLI. In Mac, GUI breaks, you get the
'bomb'. In Windows, BSOD.
I'll admit X has frozen on me at times. But that's complementary to my
point. GUIs have a bad reputation because GUIs are bad, despite being
capable of being good.
Oh yeah. Isn't ext2fs a lot more fragile than FAT?
>You didn't get it. I want groupA to have read-write permissions, groupB
>to have read-only permissions, and nothing for everyone else, for a
>particular file. How do I do that?
::small voice:: symlinks?
>My issue is with people here starting to feel that Linux is as good as
>anything gets and that everyone else needs to get up to speed now.
>That's a dangerous state of mind. It encourages stagnation.
No, no, all software sucks. I'm serious. qmail sucks. sendmail
sucks. Windows sucks. Linux, BSD, Pine, Outlook, they all suck. I'm
serious. No software is perfect. Ask ASR (er, don't).
The emasure of suckitude, according to the ASR FAQ, is the Lovelace (don't
ask, I don't know). That's a big unit like Farads, so we use milli
Lovelace or mLl.
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