[ale] OT: What the hell is XSS in Comcast land?

[Jim Lynch]

On 08/13/2013 07:35 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Every decent Linux user, not the casual desktop n00b but the people 
> who use Linux daily and earn an income from their use, should learn 
> the basics of the underlying configuration for things like iptables, 
> networking, user administration, service start and stop, and probably 
> a few others.
I have to take exception to this statement.  I've been running Linux 
since 1991.  I've administered Linux systems when I was working.  I am 
not in the habit of learning things that I don't use or use 
infrequently.  I leave those tasks to GUIs.  I've never had to 
administer iptables because I've always been behind firewalls that I 
didn't have to administer.  GUIs  not just for noobs.  I don't like to 
waste time with a command line, when it's quicker to do it with a GUI or 
I'm not very familiar with the command line interface.

That said, I do a lot from the command line.  I prefer it most of the 
time.  My passion is programming and I don't even like IDEs. The seem to 
get in the way.  vim/make seems to work well most of the time.

So there!  :)

Jim.