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--dkEUBIird37B8yKS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 05:03:52PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: >=20 > Lets get together some time for a hate-fest for things that only > come in GUI form, with a side-order of stuff that only comes with > a web-interface that doesn't even work without a modern browser > and lots of CSS and Javascript magic so you can't even script access > to it easily. Oh yes, oh yes. Ah, yes. HP sells those big disk arrays, called XPs. (Made by Hitachi, but there's an HP logo on the outside). XPs need to be configured using a webinterface. (Both the XP and webinterface have their chapter of hate).=20 It's not that HP doesn't understand the usefulness of scripting. They also sell smaller disk arrays called VA's (or used to, haven't dealt with HP for 2 years and their equipment goes EOL amazingly fast). Which can be=20 configured with both a webinterface, and with a CLI.=20 Anyway, XPs can now be configured using a CLI. But what a CLI it is. You have to type your commands inside a webbrowser. IIRC, inside a=20 textarea with some Javascript processing. (But it could be a Java applet as well). I used to tell my students that we've now come full circle. 30 years ago,= =20 we used the CLI. But that wasn't flashy enough. So, we got a GUI. But that wasn't portable enough. So we got the web wowser. But that wasn't handy. So, we got the CLI. Inside a web browser. Hate, hate, hate. Abigail --dkEUBIird37B8yKS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCasrLBOh7Ggo6rasRAvpzAKC76Y4ciCIvJdeh8Vnd9fehFIsSewCgw+ZU 7D/9IZw/ZZztFgtsleEIjJU= =OyYz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dkEUBIird37B8yKS--There's stuff above here
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