[OT] Debian mailinglists [was: RE: Debian or Ubuntu?]

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/5/20 Steve Lamb <grey at dmiyu.org>:
>> A web page with a drop down box and a text field would be more _efficient_.
>
>    According to who's measure?
>
> vim - 8Mb.
>
> Apache - 13-20Mb
> Firefox - 80Mb
>
>    Certainly not space.
>
>    Certainly not keystrokes since chances are the URL itself is longer than
> the entire operation in a text editor.
>
>    Certainly not time since I can open a terminal, ssh over, edit the file
> and save it before I can even load FF.
>

It would be efficient because then you wouldn't have to learn all
those funny CLI commands that you use in SSH, and you wouldn't have to
use that editor with two modes: one that mungles text and one that
beeps at you.

For those who already _have_ learned to use the proper tools, the CLI
and manual edits are much more efficient. For those who want to
administrate a server without learning, there is Windows Server
200[3||8] and a fancy GUI. Though, I've heard that WS2k8 does have a
decent cli now.

Dotan Cohen

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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