[ale] Unix Automation?

[Jim Kinney]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Geoffrey Myers <
lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:

> Chris Fowler wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 05:23 -0700, Damon Chesser wrote:
> >> I am curious, having never used Unix, anybody have a clue what  he
> >> might have meant?
> >
> > What he meant was that he was not really a UNIX geek and that Linux
> > perplexed him :)
> >
> > Sorry,  I've never bit**ed about things being automatic.  If anything
> > I've complained about things being too automatic making it harder for
> > newbies to learn the internals so they can fix real problems.
> >
> > As I said before.  When I got into Linux vi was our config tool and we
> > learned more about UNIX then than a noob will learn today in the same
> > amount of time.  If you had to download a base X config and then
> > configure it for your desktop using vi then raise your hand....
>
> <raises hand>
>
> yeah, how about calculating mode lines for your config? :)
>
> <hand in air>
I had a spreadsheet in sc that let me finally get X to start without smoking
(another) monitor.

>
> > Everyone else get off my lawn!
> >
> >
> > Chris
> >
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