On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:56:51AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > Still, the reg offers many opportunities for fun. Nothing like doing a deep > reg dive to manually remove tricky spyware - though it is probably better > to just do a reinstall in those cases.
They made the same mistake IBM did with OS/2: Instead of using human readable and editable configuration text-files that can include comments, they used non-editable, cryptic files without comments that automatically and inevitably get messed up over time and force you to reinstall every now and then. That makes the system unusable because of its unreliability. The tendency in Debian to split up configuration files --- like for apache and exim4 --- and to spread them over several directories and to have the system automatically mess with them has already gone too far. Just try to figure out how to configure exim with that system --- it remains cryptical, and it's far easier not to use it. Apache was also easier to configure before it was messed up. It's anything else but fun ... -- "Don't let them, daddy. Don't let the stars run down." http://adin.dyndns.org/adin/TheLastQ.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
