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On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 10:43:49PM +0100, Geoff Richards wrote: > > Didn't you know that web browsers are super special? Everything you > thought you knew about graphical user interfaces was wrong. This is > the age of the interweb! s/graphical //; I used to tell the following story to my students when giving an XP course (no, not the OS, the disk array). One configures/admins an XP using a *puke* webbrowser. Many moons ago, configuration and administration was done using the command line. Life was good. But a command line isn't flashy, so the graphical user interface was invented, and people were forced to wade through slow loading pages of widgets to do trivial tasks (show pictures of the "old software"). But the current hype is webwowsers! So we now have lots of clickidy-click and slooooooow loading pages in between. But now boys and girls, HP has invented something new. A "command-line interface". But not from the command-line, that would be too obvious. Noooooooo, instead, inside the webapplication they have a page with a <textarea> to type in the commands. A webinterface to the command line. Crack smoking idiots. AbigailThere's stuff above here
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