On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:26:59AM +0800, jam ([email protected]) wrote:
> On Sunday 23 August 2009 16:38:37 [email protected] wrote:

[snip]

> The GUI paradigism allows people who have not learned to talk to computers to 
> communicate using pictures.
> This picture mode is slow and cumbersome (imagine talking to a Russian, but 
> using pictures to convey your point)

I beg to differ.

Let me see. GUI stands for "graphic user interface" which does not mean 
pictures and it doesn NOT mean slow and cumbersome ... and when I used my first
X windows (late 80's DEC station) I moved away from the shell only thing FAST 
...
especially if you need to look after a number of apache servers, all in differnt
places/cities/countries and want to compare their httpd.conf's. You can
do that by ssh's into all of the machine using 4 xterms side by side.

You can't do that without a, what you call slow and cumbersome, GUI.


jobst






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