Posted by Andrew James Mann on 1999-03-15
>
> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 02:30:05 -0800 (PST)
> From: Matthew Pratt <mattpratt@xxxxx.xxx>
> Subject: Re: Computer users
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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.
>
Flagrant use of "we" in place of "I" indicates the strong desire
or need to have a following. It is good practice to refrain from speaking
for others without their consent.
> 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).
>
I think you have programming confused with Star Trek. Programmers
make a product. If a product is not usable it is worthless. This has
nothing to do with linux, unix, windows, or any other OS. It always
amazes me how the "who's manliest" contest can arise in the most
traditionaly un-manly places.
> 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).
>
Did he kill your dog or something? You seem quite intent on
insulting someone that you don't know for saying something completely
logical.
> 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/
>
A good concept. You may want to change the port that the service
is provided on however. Port 78 is a reserved port for the vettcp
service. In addition, standards are usually a nice thing - especially in
relation to networks. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
(www.iana.org) might be a good place to check out.
> > ==
> _________________________________________________________
> DO YOU YAHOO!?
> Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Don't tell me you can't see the irony of insulting both a person
and Yahoo by telling them to "go point 'n click" when you yourself use
yahoo mail? Futhermore it is FAR more annoying to use mail that spams
advertisements along with your messages in a public forum like this than
it ever could be to leave a topic blank or unchanged.
AM
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