[ILUG] don't ya just hate it when...

[Paul Jakma]

On Thu, 17 May 2001, Keith Clancy wrote:

> Oh my god your such an idiot,

well, i don't think so... i've worked on unix most of my time, but
it's just starting to take the piss.

> take out that Card and stick in an S3 Virge

urggg... they're absolutely useless. usually only have 1MB and you
can't get any decent resolution, or if you do you end up running in
depth 8bpp and you get horrible dithered icons.

> .... what are you
> gonna do, have an administration tool like somthing out of that
> hackers film on it ???

yes. a nice GUI tool, so that i can easily do what i want to do with
my boxes with as little hassle as possible, instead of having to look
at bloody prompts to make sure that the command i'm typing is going to
box "foo" and not "bar".

instead of having to trawl through man pages, or worse info pages and
that bloody GNU info viewer, and sometimes even having to look at
source cause the programmer couldn't be arsed to do documentation.

give me a GUI telling me what options are available, what information
the programme needs so i can type it in without having to remember
that the data needs to be delimited with character , terminated with ;
and enclosed in { };

so much fecking fuss and time wasted, when all i need to do is, eg add
a host to DNS.

argg..

> The graphics card is one of the most least important pieces of
> hardware in a server.

well, if you want GUI tools, then a graphics card might be important
actually.

> Keith.

--paulj