Robert D. Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Eric Sisler wrote:
>
>:Sam Bayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>:
>:> (and you can stuff that buggy, overcomplicated linuxconf crap. I'm being
>:>somewhat unfair, as it's been getting better over time, but dammit! well-
>:>documented text files are simple to configure, and can be
>script-manipulated.
>:>They are not to be treated as some kind of necessary evil.)
>:Amen! I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. I'd have to say
>:linuxconf *is* getting better, but I still prefer to edit my config files
>:manually too.
>I like editing the files by hand as well, especially in the beginning. I
>have been told that I am a bit masochistic for liking it this way, but
>I'll explain why: I get a better understanding of what is going on if I
>have to do it the "hard" way. A good parallel can be seen in mathematics
>and HTML coding. Remember when the teacher would not let you use the
>calculator, but made you instead write out all the work by hand? I feel
>that you gain a greater understanding this way. The same applies to HTML
>coding. I have seen so many people that use WYSIWYG editors that have no
>idea what is going on behind the scenes. Then, when something is not
>happening like they would like, they have to ask "What the %$#*& is going
>on?" I tell them "Look at the source" and to them it is useless because
>they have no idea what it means. I have never seen an WYSIWYG written
>page that did not have to be edited a bit by hand to at least clean up the
>code.
Then were of like minds on the subject. ;-) I've taken to editing many of
my HTML pages with vi or, if on a Windows PC, Wordpad. If you want to read
my views of doing Linux system administration from the command line vs. a
GUI tool, check out the URL in my .sig. Comes complete with a story of me
botching a disk drive replacement on an HP-UX box. <sheepish grin>
-Eric
Eric Sisler
Library Computer Technician
Westminster Public Library
Westminster, CO, USA
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