Re: Lost XP product key - before install.

In <MPG.1d6ab244ee0f3d3198a725@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Conor <conor.turton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In article <slrndfvc6r.5q6.this.address.is.fake@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Tony
> Houghton says...
>
>> That's not the point.
>
> Err it is seeing as you were on about renaming the recycle bin.

I never mentioned the recycle bin. When someone else did, you claimed
that a system where you have to know that the recycle bin is also known
as {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} if you want to rename it, is
easier to use than one where you have to remember "chmod 754 *".

>> I can remember commands like that. 754 isn't just
>> a magic number, it's derived by adding binary flags. If you can't
>> remember those you can use the mnemonic u=rwx,g=rx,o=r instead. But it's
>> longer to type than if you can be bothered to learn the binary values.
>> And in turn, it's still quicker to type the mnemonics than navigate a
>> GUI filer to the correct directory, select all the files in it, navigate
>> a menu to the permissions dialogue and click buttons.
>>
> Wow. Do you know what? That really is going to convince hoards of
> people to switch to Linux.
>
> Or:
>
> Navigate to directory, CTRL-A,

But you can't use Ctrl-A. The keyboard is dead, menmonics are too hard
to learn etc etc.

> right click, select properties, tick the
> attribute you want. Just done it now. Took me 10 seconds. How long does
> it take to:
>
> Fire up XTerm etc.

I'd already be using one.

> cd /home/user/directory
> chmod <long list of switches *

I'd probably use chmod <options> /home/user/directory/* instead of two
commands. Takes all of 5 seconds because I only have to type on average
the first two characters in each filename path element and use tab
completion.

> Probably about the same but one is a few clicks, the other is a PITA
> which is why DOS and the CLI is dead.

DOS is nothing like a decent Unix shell.

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