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* [TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 32, Issue 10
       [not found] <mailman.3.1150077601.54412.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
@ 2006-06-12  2:09 ` Larry McVoy
  2006-06-17 22:38   ` Jacob Goense
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Larry McVoy @ 2006-06-12  2:09 UTC (permalink / raw)


> The bandwidth of a mouse and menus is not very high.  The bandwidth of a 
> keyboard is a lot higher.  

I've long thought that what we needed was control panel which operated on
revision controlled flat files in /etc.  So you could write scripts to
do the automated stuff but you could point and click to do the stuff that
you forgot how to do.
-- 
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Larry McVoy                lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitkeeper.com



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* [TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 32, Issue 10
  2006-06-12  2:09 ` [TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 32, Issue 10 Larry McVoy
@ 2006-06-17 22:38   ` Jacob Goense
  2006-06-17 23:53     ` Larry McVoy
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jacob Goense @ 2006-06-17 22:38 UTC (permalink / raw)


On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Larry McVoy wrote:
> I've long thought that what we needed was control panel which operated on
> revision controlled flat files in /etc.  So you could write scripts to
> do the automated stuff but you could point and click to do the stuff that
> you forgot how to do.

Smit?




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* [TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 32, Issue 10
  2006-06-17 22:38   ` Jacob Goense
@ 2006-06-17 23:53     ` Larry McVoy
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Larry McVoy @ 2006-06-17 23:53 UTC (permalink / raw)


On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 12:38:39AM +0200, Jacob Goense wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > I've long thought that what we needed was control panel which operated on
> > revision controlled flat files in /etc.  So you could write scripts to
> > do the automated stuff but you could point and click to do the stuff that
> > you forgot how to do.
> 
> Smit?

Good god, no, please, no.
-- 
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Larry McVoy                lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitkeeper.com



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