I just realised that aliasing "rm" to "rm -i" is just like implementing Vista's User Account Control on UNIX.
"Your permission is required for this file operation." -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Tony Arnold Sent: Thu 4/24/2008 11:07 AM To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Evolution irritation Dave, David Restall - System Administrator wrote: > Me too until I had a similar problem. The domain part is case insensitive > because it follows the rules for DNS. The local part is case sensitive - > it follows the rules for local users and on (for example) UNIX dave is > not the same as daVe (I won't mention the historical reason why DAVE is > not a good UNIX logon :-)). It works because most sensible sysadmins > fold everything to one case or the other. It's in the RFC's somewhere, > I just can't remember where. You are absolutely right! You have relieved me of a delusion I have held for far too long:-) And there fore EVO is crazy to automatically change the case of an e-mail address. All our e-mail addresses here at Manchester are aliases and I suspect they are case insensitive, but obviously the final delivery address is case sensitive in the mailbox part. > Diane, it's a pain and I hate it when I use any word processor that > capitalises words for me - or indeed does anything automatically. > Too often these systems think they are being clever and overriding them > becomes a big irritant. Having fewer clever features forces you to > improve your proof reading and typing skills. I agree. > My other pet irritant is sysadmins who insist on aliasing rm to rm -i. I agree with this too. You can always unalias it in your .bashrc file, but yes, you shouldn't have to! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security, Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
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