Re: Upgrading without central packaging

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From: Abigail
Subject: Re: Upgrading without central packaging
Date: 23:23 on 23 Apr 2005
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On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 05:03:52PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
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> 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,=
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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

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