From: Matt <matt@proweb.co.uk>
To: John Murdie <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re[2]: [9fans] User Interface
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 15:11:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <068424359.20010814151148@proweb.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15We38-00028k-00@minster.cs.york.ac.uk>
JM> If you've ever seen, as I have, e.g. a Windows administrator creating
JM> student accounts by printing out the E-mailed list which came from my
JM> University's Administration, and then typing in each student's details
JM> again, then pressing `Create account' and `Ok' buttons (or more!) for
JM> each one, you'll know how bankrupt the idea of (only) direct
JM> manipulation is.
a company i shared an office building with hosted 200 or so web sites
on one NT server. He assigned them all a distinct IP.
One day his box "forgot" it's IIS settings (a frequent occurence
in those days - bit rot on binary files probably)
He had to manually enter the details of all 200 sites.
Each IP had to be entered an octet at a time because of MS's great IP
dialog control.
It took him 20 hours.
how we laughed (but not to his very pissed off face)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-14 14:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-14 9:46 Eric de Redelijkheid
2001-08-14 13:15 ` John Murdie
2001-08-14 14:11 ` Matt [this message]
2001-08-14 16:37 ` [9fans] " Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-08-15 17:04 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-15 13:23 ` [9fans] " William K. Josephson
2001-08-16 21:04 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-14 10:27 Lucio De Re
2001-08-14 12:45 ` pac
2001-08-15 8:34 ` Eric de Redelijkheid
2001-08-15 10:29 ` Re[2]: " Matt
[not found] ` <200108151619.MAA07420@augusta.math.psu.edu>
2001-08-16 8:28 ` Eric de Redelijkheid
2001-08-16 10:26 ` Re[2]: " Matt
2001-08-16 11:10 ` Matt
2001-08-14 17:13 anothy
2001-08-14 17:24 ` Re[2]: " Matt
2001-08-17 8:48 ` Chet Ramey
2001-08-15 5:07 David Gordon Hogan
2001-08-15 17:15 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-15 12:56 forsyth
2001-08-15 12:56 forsyth
2001-08-15 15:56 Scott Schwartz
2001-08-20 15:02 anothy
2001-08-20 21:01 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-20 21:10 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-20 15:28 Russ Cox
2001-08-20 16:25 anothy
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