Re: Evolutionary Humour

In article <1ixrfb6.1yqxc2knb899pN%john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (John S. Wilkins) wrote:

*Hemidactylus* <ecphoric@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Apr 6, 12:38 am, Walter Bushell <pr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article
<23af1c17-249b-4458-80fe-a05b60f2b...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,

"*Hemidactylus*" <ecpho...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 5, 6:06 pm, j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (John S. Wilkins) wrote:
*Hemidactylus* <ecpho...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
Why is it that Linux hasn't pulled much market share from Windows
yet? Stress and grief perhaps? I've now attended the funerals of
two OS's that died young as a result of my dual-boot ventures.

I think most lusers are a little overawed by the command line.
Remember, Windows was designed for lusers, not users.

There are those of us who were not hackers, but got a kick out of DOS
level commands for file management and such before actually going into
a Windows GUI session. Wasn't that before Windows became the OS
instead of a GUI interface? The only command prompt I've done lately
in Windows is ipconfig and pinging my Linux machine to see if iptables
was working right.

AFAIK you have to run a DOS command to find out how your netwanking is
set up. Was that ipconfig?

ipconfig lets you see your NIC hardware info such as MAC addresses and
IP stuff (current DHCP leased IP, subnet mask, gateway). In Linux (and
Unix/Mac OS X?) ifconfig works the same. You can find the MAC address
to set up filtering in the router and find your current DHCP leased IP
to ping yourself using another machine. That's a lot of fun on a
boring Saturday night.

On the Mac we use a neat little utility called, obscurely, the Network
Utility. It also Pings, Fingers, WhoIses and Traceroutes, among other
things.

But one *could* use the Eunuchs command line tools.

One type of Mac user is very tech savvy, but want to spend as little
time as possible fighting the computer system for ones own use. If my
boss decrees that I use a clumsy system, he's paying for my time and
aside from a polite suggestion, it's not my department. For all I know
the boss may have very good reason for doing something that looks
stupid, like if he does it the correct way we'll all be fired, or the
system that is harder to program may be better maintained and they don't
lose you data at random times.

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