Posted by Matthew Pratt on 1999-03-14
---Jimi345@xxx.xxx wrote: > > I'm a newcomer to this whole guild thing, but i Since your new, I will point out that it is good practice to change the subject of your reply from the digest number to something related to your post. No big deal tho. noticed a lot of arguments of > Linux and Unix, vs. Microsoft. What the programmer tends to forget about > computers and software, is that it's designed for people like my mother, who > know nothing, (I mean nothing) about computers. My mom has trouble using > Microsoft Word 97, because she can't get things like the cursor to go where > she wants. This is an example of what normal, and i use that term loosely, > people want to do with computers. Maybe that's an extreme example, but you > get the point. All that GUI stuff makes a computer look entertaining and > easy. You get me? Thats all well and good, but keep in mind that this place is more for the power user (or aspiring power user), not the normal Joe Sixpack. Here we _want_ to know how things work, and dont want to be restriced to just pointing and clicking. Now if we were being employed to write user friendly software it would be a different story, but we are here to explore the limits of our computers and understand the underlying technology, mainly for personal interest (homework not included). And the best way to do this in my personal opinion is to have the source code, and so linux fits the bill perfectly (no pun intented). Perhaps if you wanted entertainment you should have bought a Nintendo or Playstation, or if thats not your style, you could surf right on out and back over to yahoo, where you can point 'n' click your little heart out. In the mean time, those of us who are serious will be playing around with our 'nix boxes and our command lines and creating software that we can use (and not worrying about petty little "This program has performed an illegal operation!" dialog boxes). Now after all that ranting its ironic that I have been working on a little app for myself called GTKRemotePPPLoad that has a GUI. Those intersted can find it on my home page (screen shot there too ;-): http://members.xoom.com/mattpratt/ == Matty email - mattpratt@xxxxx.xxx "Learn the console, become 1 with it, it is 0." _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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