From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: presotto@closedmind.org
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] namespace boosterism
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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 16:07:33 -0500
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I've had relatively good success by showing people how to
get outside a firewall by importing an ip interface from
a system that straddles a firewall.

Debugging processes on a another system by importing it's
/proc also helped.

If they ask why you just don't have a universal name
space, they're starting to understand.  Then you get
to explain virtual worlds and the tradeoffs between
relative and universal names.

People used to sandboxing in Java or that grew up with
cp/cms(ir I'm remembeting my past correctly) get it
quite quickly.