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On 12/12/2016 12:00 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Send PLUG mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of PLUG digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Scripts vs GUI (Dan Herrington) > 2. Re: 4k displays with video card recommendations? (Pete Lancashire) > 3. Re: 4k displays with video card recommendations? (Chuck Hast) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 18:54:47 -0600 > From: Dan Herrington <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Scripts vs GUI > To: [email protected], Portland Linux/Unix Group > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > As someone who's career is built on automation, I agree with all of you :) > > A good GUI abstracts more than automates, but that is more pedantic. > Automation is for brain dead, repetitive tasks, as Keith pointed out, but a > good GUI, yeah, King Beowulf is right. A picture is worth a thousand words. > You can't get a status on the web server farm by reading through scripts. > > CLI allows you to build it and keep it working operationally, but the GUIs > allow you to manage the higher level complex tasks of assimilating and > showing information fast for decision making. > > As for SCP, yeah I'd script that. > >> On Dec 11, 2016, at 11:51 AM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 12/10/2016 10:15 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: >>> ... >>> The power of Unix/Linux is that shell scripts can automate >>> what you do frequently. >>> ... >>> On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 01:21:21AM -0800, King Beowulf wrote: >>> ... >>> Often a properly designed GUI is quicker and more intuitive that trying >>> to remember and track obscure CLI options stuffed into a script >>> somewhere. >>> ... >> If you reread what I wrote, it is about making your >> own SHELL SCRIPTS for frequently used tasks. You >> can connect to your scripts with the command line, >> or you can add a desktop icon, or add an icon to >> the Gnome/KDE menu. CREATE and AUTOMATE. >> >> There are tools for capturing and automating mouse >> clicks. But your desktop icons can move around, >> so that is very fragile. >> >> Rich mentions LyX for working with LaTeX, which I have >> tried using. Too inflexible, too much work to iterate >> towards what I want, too subject to the changing whims >> of GUI re-designers. My documents are built out of >> segments of other documents, dozens of interations, >> often with other tools (like povray) making some of >> the elements of the complete document. Concatenating >> documents with shell scripts is easier after iteration >> two, and vital on a tight deadline. >> >> My dear wife uses the desktop and GUI far more than I >> do; the icons and documents are piled on top of each >> other on her desktop, and she cannot find anything. >> Her desktop has meeting minutes from two years ago, >> but she can't use grep to locate what she worked on >> last month. With grep and text sources, I can find >> meeting minutes from 20 years ago; more specifically, >> a document in a specific two week time window 20 >> years ago - on half a dozen machines, with different >> distro versions. >> >> If I put that search in a script, with a few comments, >> I can use it again in the future. I can rewrite it to >> look for another time window, without needing to >> remember how to use rarely used grep options. When I >> have many such scripts, I can use grep to find them. >> >> Simple shell programming (with comments!) is an >> investment in the future. Some people "organize" their >> information and tasks like they have no future. They >> work like blue collar assembly line workers, repeating >> the same manual operations over and over until they get >> old and they can't hold their hands steady any more. >> Or programmers replace them with a robot. >> >> Keith >> >> -- >> Keith Lofstrom [email protected] >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 05:49:30 -0800 > From: Pete Lancashire <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] 4k displays with video card recommendations? > To: "Portland Linux/Unix Group" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <caa-f0u86trcn_jn-jw035zne4hu3f65+04n9f+tg0mlw1ge...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > I am going to be in the same boat this spring when I put a new desktop > together. He just got one of these > > http://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-27UD58-B-4k-uhd-led-monitor > > -pete > > > > On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 12:28 AM, Russell Senior <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I have a very early i7 quadcore desktop box with a dual monitor setup. >> However, it has some annoying features, not least being the bezels on >> the two displays running down the middle. I'm interested in getting a >> single 4K display to replace them, maybe in the 30-36" diagonal range. >> In addition, I'd need a suitable linux-friendly video card to drive it. >> >> Has anyone set up a 4K rig with recommendations on hardware? >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> -- >> Russell Senior, President >> [email protected] >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 09:43:39 -0800 > From: Chuck Hast <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] 4k displays with video card recommendations? > To: "Portland Linux/Unix Group" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <cadnfbv_+03rr+q7z6fymo0j-41rbjrybyxdbhxummocc6v7...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Oh, now I have to get one of those, then get compiz to give me multiple > cubes, one for each session on the big screen. > > On Dec 12, 2016 5:52 AM, "Pete Lancashire" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am going to be in the same boat this spring when I put a new desktop >> together. He just got one of these >> >> http://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-27UD58-B-4k-uhd-led-monitor >> >> -pete >> >> >> >> On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 12:28 AM, Russell Senior < >> [email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I have a very early i7 quadcore desktop box with a dual monitor setup. >>> However, it has some annoying features, not least being the bezels on >>> the two displays running down the middle. I'm interested in getting a >>> single 4K display to replace them, maybe in the 30-36" diagonal range. >>> In addition, I'd need a suitable linux-friendly video card to drive it. >>> >>> Has anyone set up a 4K rig with recommendations on hardware? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Russell Senior, President >>> [email protected] >>> _______________________________________________ >>> PLUG mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG: http://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > End of PLUG Digest, Vol 147, Issue 12 > ************************************* _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
