[ale] Unix Automation?

[Geoffrey Myers]

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

Yeah, that was the scary part when you read the docs that stated that if 
you didn't calculate your mode lines properly, you could actually damage 
our hardware.  Fortunately, I never did that.

> 
> 
>      > Everyone else get off my lawn!
>      >
>      >
>      > Chris
>      >
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Until later, Geoffrey

"I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson