From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Message-ID: <068424359.20010814151148@proweb.co.uk> To: John Murdie <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re[2]: [9fans] User Interface In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 15:11:48 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: dbbf9a5c-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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)