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On Thursday 01 January 2009 02:25:10 Stroller wrote: |
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> On 31 Dec 2008, at 23:33, Michael P. Soulier wrote: |
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> > ... |
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> > Don't you think the default action here should be to do nothing |
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> > instead of |
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> > breaking my system? |
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> "That proposal is ludicrous and completely counter to the Unix |
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> way of doing things." |
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> Not my opinion, just quoting. |
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nice one :-) |
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The Unix way is to do what the user told it to do, no more and no less. |
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If you tell the system to install a driver, ignore the prompt or even |
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type "y", why are users constantly surprised when the system does exactly |
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what they told it to do? What's the computer supposed to say? |
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"Um, no my china, look here: I don't think that's a smart move. I don't care |
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what you asked, I'm just not going to do it. Eat dust, sucker" |
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That's how Windows works. |
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On Unix, if you break it you get to keep both pieces. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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